August 20, 2025
A conversation with Dr. Annika Windon, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell MedicineQ: You received board certification in anatomic and clinical pathology after completing your residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and developed an expertise in gastrointestinal, pancreas, and liver pathology. What drew you to those fields, and what do you find engaging or challenging about them today?A: Initially, I was drawn to GI pathology because of my mentor in residency. She was an exceptional GI pathologist, and she introduced me to the breadth...
August 14, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine faculty member Dr. Anna Nam and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maria Cecilia Lira have been chosen to join the 2025 class of Pew scholars and fellows.Dr. Nam, an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been selected as a 2025 Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research. Now in its 12th year, the award, emanating from a partnership between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust, supports early career scientists with a four-year, $300,000 grant to conduct innovative research projects spanning cancer...
August 11, 2025
Dr. Daniel R. Alonso, dean emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, died July 31 in Norfolk, Va., at age 88. An esteemed physician, administrator and teacher, Dr. Alonso served both institutions with distinction for more than 40 years.A native of Argentina, Dr. Alonso started medical school at age 17 enthusiastic about medicine but unsure about what specialty to practice, recalled his son, Daniel R. Alonso, an attorney at VedderPrice in New York City and an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School....
June 24, 2025
Metastasis. It’s the word cancer patients dread most – and the scan with ominous black spots showing the disease has spread. For too many people, metastatic cancer is kept at bay only for a short time, with chemotherapy and radiation, before the disease returns or the harsh treatments fatally weaken the body.For more than 20 years, Nancy Du, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and the Rasweiler Family Research Scholar in Cancer Research at Weill Cornell Medicine, has researched how metastatic cancer arises. With a $500,000 grant over three years from the Congressionally...
June 14, 2025
Dr. Teresa Sanchez, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and associate professor of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded the highly competitive Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.
June 8, 2025
Neal Lindeman, M.D. is Vice Chair of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Pathology, and Faculty Distinguished Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.Question: You completed your fellowship in molecular genetic pathology at Harvard Medical School. What drew you to that field? What did you find engaging and challenging about it?
June 8, 2025
More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat early-stage bladder cancer.Now, a team of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is expanding the understanding of how the treatment works — an understanding that could help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapies more broadly.
April 29, 2025
Three distinguished Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Matthew Greenblatt, Dr. Lishomwa Ndhlovu and Dr. Sallie Permar, have been elected to the prestigious Association of American Physicians (AAP).Regarded as one of the top honors in the field of health and medicine, election to the AAP recognizes physician-scientists who exhibit excellence in the pursuit of medical knowledge and the advancement of basic or translational science through experimentation and discovery and its application to clinical medicine.
April 10, 2025
New research from Weill Cornell Medicine has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes—not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study, published Feb.
January 16, 2025
Three Weill Cornell Medicine scientists were honored this week with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest commendation for outstanding early-career scientists and engineers.