Dr. Peter received his PhD in Molecular Genetics and completed postdoctoral training in cell biology and pulmonary medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Interested in epithelial stem cells in cancer and disease, his laboratory, which includes a team of outstanding student researchers, has published several papers on epithelial stem cell regeneration, lung pathologies, and cancer. Dr. Peter is affiliated with the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York Medical College and the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He teaches the Anatomy and Physiology and Microbiology courses. 

Education

• PhD Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science
• MSc School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
• BSc Department of Biology, Tel Aviv University

Publications

• Zefi, O., Waldman, S., Marsh, A., Shi, M. K., Sonbolian, Y., Khulan, B., Siddiqui, T., Desai, A., Patel, D., Okorozo, A., Khader, S., Dobkin, J., Sadoughi, A., Shah, C., Spivack, S., & Peter, Y. (2024). Distinctive Field Effects of Smoking and Lung Cancer Case-Control Status on Bronchial Basal Cell Growth and Signaling. Respiratory Research, 25 (1), 317. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-024-02924-w
• Kello, E., Greenberg, R., Li, W., Polansky, S., Maldonado, R., Peter, Y., & Basu, P. (2023). The Effect of Antibiotic Treatment and Gene Expression of Mex B Efflux Transporters on the Resistance in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms. Applied Microbiology, 3 (3), 709-721. https://doi.org/10.3390/applmicrobiol3030049
• Kello, E., Greenberg, R., Li, W., Polansky, S., Maldonado, R., Peter, Y., & Basu, P. (2023). The Effect of Antibiotic Treatment and Gene Expression of Mex B Efflux Transporters on the Resistance in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms. Applied Microbiology, 3 (3), 709-721. https://doi.org/10.3390/applmicrobiol3030049
• Huang, Z., Sun, S., Lee, M., Maslov, A. Y., Shi, M., Waldman, S., Marsh, A., Siddiqui, T., Dong, X., Peter, Y., Sadoughi, A., Shah, C., Ye, K., Spivack, S. D., & Vijg, J. (2022). Single-Cell Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells in Relation to Aging and Smoking. Nature Genetics, 54 (4), 492-498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01035-w
• Batbayar, K., Ye, K., Waldman, S., Marsh, A., Shi, M., Siddiqui, T., Suzuki, M., Desai, A., Patel, D., Patel, J., Dobkin, J., Sadoughi, A., Sadoughi, A., Shah, C., Shah, C., Vijg, J., Peter, Y., & Spivack, S. (2021). Bronchial Field Progenitor Basal Cells Show Methylome-Wide Characteristics Reflective of Lung Cancer Case-Control, Age, and Smoking Status of the Donor. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, A4837-A4837. https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2021.203.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4837
• Batbayar, K., Ye, K., Waldman, S., Marsh, A., Shi, M., Siddiqui, T., Suzuki, M., Desai, A., Patel, D., Patel, J., Dobkin, J., Sadoughi, A., Sadoughi, A., Shah, C., Shah, C., Vijg, J., Peter, Y., & Spivack, S. (2021). Bronchial Field Progenitor Basal Cells Show Methylome-Wide Characteristics Reflective of Lung Cancer Case-Control, Age, and Smoking Status. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 16 (3), S536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.950
• Spivack, S. D., Huang, Z., Maslov, A., Sun, S., Lee, M., Shah, C., Sadoughi, A., Desai, A., Patel, D., Siddiqui, T., Patel, J. V., Shi, M., Waldman, S., Marsh, A., Peter, Y., & Vijg, J. (2020). Somatic Mutations at Single Base Resolution in Single Bronchial Progenitor Cells Collected from Human Lung. American Thoracic Society. https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_meetingabstracts.a2316

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