Dr. Lewis Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a Member of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, has won the 2020 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.
More Effective Therapies for Bladder Cancer
August 24, 2020
Each year, 80,000 people in the United States are newly diagnosed with bladder cancer, and more than 17,000 lose their lives due to the disease. It ranks as the fourth most common type of cancer in men—but for decades, there was a paucity of research and little understanding of its unique biology, leaving clinicians with limited treatment options.
New NIH Grant to Study COVID19
August 7, 2020
Weill Cornell Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 research. The two-year $1.5 million grant will fund projects led by Dr.
Uncloaking Tumors
August 3, 2020
Localized radiation therapy against a tumor can trigger a beneficial immune response throughout the body by releasing DNA from mitochondria into the cytoplasm of tumor cells. The findings suggest a new strategy for boosting this response, which may significantly increase the effectiveness of radiation against certain cancers.
A Conversation with Pinkal Desai, M.D.
July 28, 2020
We are pleased to introduce our newest EIPM Member Pinkal Desai, M.D.
Dr. Desai is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the WCM Hematology and Medical Oncology Department and is the Charles, Lillian, and Betty Neuwirth Clinical Scholar in Oncology, and Clinical Director of the EIPM Molecular Aging Institute.
We hope you enjoy learning more about her research interests.
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EIPM's Q2 2020 External Newsletter
July 1, 2020
July 2020,
Dear Friends of the EIPM,
Thank you for signing up on our website to receive this quarterly newsletter, I'm thrilled to share news about the important advances we're making in research and efforts to bring more effective treatments to patients during these extraordinary times.
'Mini Brain' Models Study Tumors & Treatments
June 23, 2020
A new technique that involves growing brain tumors in a miniature laboratory model of the human brain recreated the complex genetics of the disease better than other approaches, according to research by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. The findings suggest that the technique may provide scientists with a more powerful way to develop and test personalized treatments for these tumors, known as glioblastomas.
A Conversation with Dr. Ravi Sharaf
June 3, 2020
We hope you enjoy the following conversation with EIPM Member Dr. Ravi Sharaf.
Ravi Sharaf, M.D., M.S., is a Member of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, an Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology) with a secondary appointment as Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences (Epidemiology).
EIPM's Clinical Director Cora Sternberg, M.D. on PROSPER Trial
May 29, 2020
A drug that blocks a male hormone receptor prolonged life by nearly a year compared with the placebo in men with nonmetastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to the final analysis of the results of an international, multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.
A Conversation with Princesca Dorsaint
May 7, 2020
Princesca Dorsaint is a Bioinformatics Analyst at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. She was born and raised in New York, and received her undergraduate degree in Health Science from The University of Hartford, and then later pursued a second undergraduate degree in Biomedical Informatics from The New York City College of Technology. She has been at Weill Cornell Medicine for a year and a half.
We hope you enjoy learning more about Princesca, her career goals, and how she’s staying healthy during the global pandemic.