Tobias Meyer

Dr. Tobias Meyer is the Joseph C. Hinsey Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is a cell biologist and biophysicist working to understand how human cells move and divide to build, maintain, and repair tissues and organs.

Meyer has made notable discoveries about how cell signals control cell function. He pioneered the development of biosensors and live cell imaging and analysis methods to study intracellular signal transduction. His work on local signaling and feedback regulation led to our current understanding that the signals that control cell function vary between cells and are local and dynamic in nature.

Meyer’s recent work investigates how cells integrate information they receive from receptors and stress conditions to understand how human cells move and divide to build, maintain, and repair tissues and organs. His findings can be applied to diseases such as cancer and a phenomenon referred to as senescence, a process by which a cell ages and permanently stops dividing but does not die.

Meyer is an active member of the Tri-Institutional research community – a collaboration of Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University – to extend his basic science findings to understand disease processes.