January 25, 2017
Please join us in congratulating Dr. David Rickman on receiving a 3-year $2M DOD Impact Award. He will share this award with his Co-PI, Dr. Himisha Beltran from the Department of Medicine. David Rickman, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThis award will support Dr. Rickman and Beltran's work in elucidating the mechanisms by which N-Myc promotes neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) and in developing novel therapeutic agents to target N-Myc-dependent pathways critical for NEPC.Congratulations, Drs. Rickman and Beltran!
January 22, 2017
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Pengbo Zhou on receiving a $1.3M 5-year R01 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).Pengbo Zhou, PhD Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The focus of the study is to establish the mechanistic role of the CUL4B ubiquitin ligase in the pathogenesis of colon cancer. Dr. Zhou will also identify small molecule inhibitors of CUL4B and test their efficacy in treating colon cancer.Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
December 4, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Nancy Du for receiving a 5-year $1.3M NIH/NCI grant entitled “Beyond Apoptosis, Bcl-xL in Tumor Metastasis.”Nancy Du, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe focus of these studies will be to elucidate the cellular pathways that are regulated by Bcl-xL to promote cell migration and how the aberrant regulation of these pathways contributes to the formation of metastatic lesions in cancer. Congratulations, Dr. Du!
November 13, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Mark Rubin on receiving a 3-year R01 award for $500k.Along with his collaborator at Yale, Dr. Mark Gerstein, Dr. Rubin will develop approaches to identify non-coding mutations that are important for prostate cancer. Mark A Rubin, MD Director, Institute for Precision Medicine
October 29, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Nancy Du on receiving a DOD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award.Nancy Du, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThis is a 3-year $500,000 award that will support Dr. Du’s work examining a novel function for the Bcl-xL protein in promoting cell migration and metastasis. Congratulations Dr. Du!
September 12, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ethel Cesarman and her collaborators on receiving a four-year $1M grant from the NIH to develop a novel testing approach for Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS).The study is a collaboration between Dr. Cesarman’s laboratory and laboratories at Cornell University, UCSF and the Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala, Uganda.Ethel Cesarman, MD, PhD Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
August 1, 2016
Physicians from across the country gathered in New York for a seminar on patient blood management, hosted by the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. The seminar, titled the New York Perioperative Hemostasis Course, included lectures, case presentations and panel discussions on a range of topics associated with the management and prevention of perioperative bleeding. It was held July 7-9 at the Cornell Club. Melissa Cushing, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
July 15, 2016
It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Sandra J. Shin, MD, to Vice Chairman for Education, a newly created position in the Department effective July 1, 2016. Dr. Shin will continue to serve in the capacity as Director of the Pathology Residency Training Program.Sandra J. Shin, MD Vice Chairman for EducationIn her capacity as Vice Chairman for Education, Dr. Shin will oversee the departmental fellowship programs, in addition to the residency training program. She will also expand her involvement with medical students, particularly those who are interested in pursuing a...
July 12, 2016
Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center, in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian and NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, have been awarded a grant from the NIH worth $4 million in the first year of funding to improve physicians' ability to prevent and treat disease based on individual differences in lifestyle, environment and genetics. The grant, which could total $46.5 million over five years, will enable researchers to enroll patients in the Cohort Program of President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in order to better understand the genetic and other...
June 28, 2016
Want to Ease Tensions in the Middle East? Science Diplomacy Can Help
by David Hajjar, PhD
Editor's Note: For those of us focused on the Middle East, the bad news seems unending: war, terrorism, poor governance, and other problems plague the region and stump U.S. policymakers. But the United States might do better if it used additional tools. Science diplomacy is one such tool: it can be less controversial and highly effective, leveraging a U.S. area of strength. David Hajjar, a veteran science diplomat himself who is a senior non-resident fellow here at Brookings, makes the case for...