Michael Kotlikoff

Michael Kotlikoff is an American veterinarian and biomedical researcher who is currently the Provost of Cornell University.
He received his bachelor's degree and his doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D in physiology University of California, Davis. On faculty at Cornell since 2000, he was recruited to chair the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell and to chair the mammalian genomics university task force. He previously served as the dean of the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine from 2007 to 2015 and as Chair of the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2000. His laboratory works on cardiovascular biology and heart repair, and he leads an NHLBI Resource (CHROMus - the Cornell Heart,Lung,Blood Resource for Ontogenetic Mouse Signaling) developing combinatorial mouse resources for in vivo biology.