Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jesse Platt is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine. His laboratory asks a simple but powerful question: how do changes in the cell’s internal organization shape the biology of human disease? His work defined condensate dysfunction, in which membraneless compartments lose integrity and fail to organize biomolecules, and discovered proteolethargy, a pathological reduction in protein mobility that impairs cellular function. These discoveries suggest that common stressors disrupt cellular organization and contribute to chronic disease, motivating a broader effort to define cellular organization as a fundamental dimension of human pathology.
Education:
- MD, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- Residency in Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Massachusetts General Hospital