Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, PhD profile page

Dr. Carlos Carmona-Fontaine is an associate professor of biology and a member of the Center for Genomics & Systems Biology at New York University. He holds a PhD in cell and developmental biology from University College London (UK) and a BSc in biology from Chile. The main interest of his laboratory is to understand how cells organize to form multicellular structures and how their behaviors may give rise to unexpected collective properties at the population level. These problems of multicellular organization are crucial for physiological processes and during embryonic development, but they are also critical in the formation of malignant tumors. His lab has shown that a significant player in multicellular organization emerges from social and ecological cell interactions mediated by metabolites – nutrients and waste products of cellular activity. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Carmona-Fontaine was an independent research fellow in the computational biology program at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He received a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award during his postdoctoral research and was awarded the Beddington Medal for his doctoral studies. As a faculty member, he has received a number of awards including a DP2 New Innovator Award from the NIH, a Pew Biomedical Fellowship and an American Cancer Society research fellowship.