Jochen Buck, M.D., PhD

Dr. Buck has been studying intracellular cAMP signaling pathways for the last 14 years. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Tubingen (Germany). As a Post-doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ulrich Hammerling at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he studied intracellular signaling by vitamin A, and he continued these studies during his first years as a faculty member of the Pharmacology Department of Weill Cornell Medical College. Starting in 1998, he collaborated with Dr. Lonny Levin to identify, clone, and biochemically characterize a novel form of adenylyl cyclase in mammals, the soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC). He and Dr. Levin remain collaborators studying the biochemistry and biology of mammalian sAC. They have combined their laboratories into a joint research program studying bicarbonate/carbon dioxide chemosensing via the second messenger cAMP. 

Cynthia Magro, M.D.

Dr. Cynthia Magro is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the comprehensive dermatopathology service at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University located in upper east side of Manhattan. Dr. Magro received her training at Harvard Medical School. She is internationally known in dermatopathology, having co-authored over 200 papers, several book chapters, and three textbooks: the Melanocytic Proliferation, the Cutaneous Lymphoid proliferation, and Cutaneous Biopsy Interpretation.  She is a co-editor on the Barnhill Textbook of Dermatopathology. Her expertise has focused on the pathologic assessment of cutaneous autoimmune disease, viral disease, immunofluorescence, drug reactions, benign, atypical an neoplastic lymphocytic infiltrates of the skin, and problematic melanocytic proliferations. In addition she has expertise in the area of non-neoplastic lung disease where she has functioned as the senior author on several papers in the areas of pulmonary vasculitis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lung transplantation. She has also developed a novel approach to the evaluation of non-neoplastic inflammatory lung disease via direct immunofluorescent techniques, which has been published in the new 2008 book Pulmonary Pathology (Churchill Liningstone). She currently runs the non-neoplastic lung service at the Weill College of Medicine and New York Hospital. Dr. Cynthia Magro has been recognized as a New York Times, Super Doctor in 2008, 2009, and 2010. She has also been listed in the Castle Connolly Medical Limited as a Top Doctor for the New York Metro Area in 2010 and 2011. She is a member of the American Society of Dermatopathology and United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists.