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#110 – Lew Cantley, Ph.D.: Cancer metabolism, cancer therapies, and the discovery of PI3K " If I get a result that suddenly doesn't make sense, to me that's more exciting. . .if you figure out why it didn't work and what was... Read more

The scope of the DNA changes that drive cancers has been illuminated as never before in a set of studies by a large international scientific team including Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. In six studies published Feb. 5... Read more

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a prestigious Cancer Moonshot grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) to explore the mechanisms that allow slow-growing lung cancer lesions... Read more

Dr. Silvia Formenti , chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Professor of Cancer Research at Weill Cornell Medicine, and radiation oncologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill... Read more

Dr. Gina Lee , a former postdoctoral fellow in the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine who has now joined the institution’s faculty, has won a 2019 Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior... Read more

NewYork-Presbyterian's Health Matters' Amazing Things: Ronda Kotelchuck When Ronda Kotelchuck learned she had an aggressive form of uterine cancer, she was frightened and anxious about the road ahead. Within a week of her... Read more

Consuming the equivalent of one can of soda per day caused mice predisposed to colon cancer to develop larger tumors, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The study ,... Read more

Early-career scientist Wendy Béguelin, PhD, has been named a NextGen Star by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The AACR's NextGen Star Program provides an exciting opportunity to increase the visibility of... Read more

Dr. Silvia Formenti, the Meyer Cancer Center's Associate Director of Radiation Oncology, and her collaborator Dr. Heather McArthur of Cedars Sinai have been awarded Stand Up To Cancer's 2019 Laura Ziskin Prize in... Read more