Julie S. Di Martino, Ph.D.
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Julie Di Martino, Ph.D., is from the southwest region of France. She moved to Bordeaux, France to receive her college education before moving to New York City in 2016, shortly after graduating to complete a postdoctoral training at the Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York focusing on the role of the extracellular matrix in cancer dormancy.
In 2020, Dr. Di Martino was awarded an Early Career Investigator Award from the METAvivor Foundation supporting breast cancer research to investigate the effect of ACE inhibitors on dormant cancer cells. Most recently, she was awarded the 2022 Rupert Timpl award from the International Society for Matrix Biology in recognition of her postdoctoral work recently published in Nature Cancer. Dr. Di Martino has published more than 20 publications in respected peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Cell Biology, Cancer Discovery, Nature, Nature Cancer, and Cell. Dr. Di Martino has trained numerous students in the last decade providing strong support and mentoring and is committed to train and mentor NYMC students from all levels. Joining New York Medical College as an assistant professor, her research will focus on Dormancy Escape and Cancer Metastasis using a combination of in vivo models and imaging technics.
Education
- M.S., Cellular and Molecular Genetics, University of Bordeaux
- Ph.D., Health and Life Sciences, Cellular Biology and Physiopathology, University of Bordeaux
Honors and Awards
- 2024 NYMC Outstanding Faculty Award
- 2022 Rupert Timpl awardee, International Society for Matrix Biology
