Dr. Harris Goldstein, MD

Harris Goldstein, MD, is an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Charles Michael Chair in Autoimmune Diseases and Director of the Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Goldstein’s clinical and research focus centers on developing and evaluating CAR-T cells and immunobiologics that deliver antigen-specific and co-stimulatory signals to focally activate specific cytotoxic T cells to treat and potentially cure HIV and cancer.After earning his Doctor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1980, Dr. Goldstein completed his pediatrics residency at Bronx Municipal Hospital Medical Center (Jacobi Hospital) in 1983. He then trained in Allergy and Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health in the Fauci Laboratory of …Immunoregulation as a Medical Staff Fellow (1983-1986) and then Senior Staff Fellow (1986-1987).Dr. Goldstein’s research utilizes novel molecular, cellular and biochemical approaches, including novel CAR T cells to weaponize the immune system by using an artificial immunity (AI) strategy to boost immune response to treat infectious diseases and cancer. He has been principal investigator and co-investigator for over two dozen NIH-funded research projects and has given many invited national and international talks and lectures. Dr. Goldstein has shared his work through peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and abstracts published in a number of scientific journals, including Lancet, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science Translational Medicine, among others. He also holds three United States patents.Dr. Goldstein is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Goldstein has received multiple awards for teaching including the Samuel M. Rosen Outstanding Teacher Award for Instruction in the Pre-Clinical Curriculum, the Harry Eagle Award for Outstanding Basic Science Teaching and the Einstein Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and induction into the Leo M. Davidoff Society for Excellence in Teaching and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.