Ekta Khurana, Ph.D. , recently received the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Scholar Award for her project, Using Chromatin Conformation Changes at Single-cell Level to Identify Drivers of Treatment Resistance in... 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
I have many fond memories of watching the soap opera General Hospital with my mom after school. The character of Dr. Lesley Webber became a role model for me. She always seemed sharp, focused, and capable no matter how much... Read more
This article first appeared on the WCM Newsroom . Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , have been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S... Read more
The Department of Radiation Oncology has been awarded two grants from the Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Program to study the combination of radiotherapy and immunotherapy in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. A... Read more
The full article first appeared on the WCM Newsroom . Seven Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members leading multi-institutional research teams were awarded grants from The Starr Foundation's 12th Starr Cancer Consortium Grant... Read more
From the Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom: Video of An Interventional Approach to Pancreatic Cancer | Steve's Story | Weill Cornell Medicine Being diagnosed with advanced metastatic pancreatic cancer was a grim... Read more
Lewis Cantley, Ph.D. and collaborators Marcus Goncalves, M.D., Ph.D. , and Benjamin Hopkins, Ph.D. recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about their work on Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase (PI3K... Read more
This news story was originally published on the Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom . Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $9 million Program Project Grant (P01) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better... Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Kristy Richards , whose work using a canine model to better understand targeted therapies for lymphoma was highlighted in the November 14, 2018 issue of Nature Outlooks. Read more
Two WCM investigators, Yariv Houvras, Ph.D. and Bishoy Faltas, M.D. each recently received a Rapid Response Pilot Grant from the Functional Genomics Initiative (FGI). A joint venture from the Englander Institute for... Read more
Four interdisciplinary teams of physicians and scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine have been announced as recipients of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center's 2018 Collaborative Research Initiative grants. The awards... Read more
New research published this week in Science Signaling on mechanisms that control skin pigmentation reveal new pathways that could increase the pigmentation of skin and reduce the risk of skin cancer, the most common form of... Read more
Video of Dan Landau, MD, PhD - 2018 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Prize Winner Dan Landau, M.D., Ph.D., was one of the awardees of the 2018 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, which... Read more
The article "Reducing Postoperative Readmissions: There's an App for That" discusses Dr. Heather Yeo's smartphone app that prompts patients to adhere to optimal postoperative care. The full article can be found here: http://... Read more
Cancer metastasis, the migration of cells from a primary tumor to form distant tumors in the body, can be triggered by a chronic leakage of DNA within tumor cells, according to a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and... Read more
Selina Chen-Kiang, Ph.D., is the recipient of a grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's new research program in Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). She and her team investigate the efficacy of a therapy approved for breast... Read more
Video of Dr. Martin on Trial of Oral Azacitidine Plus R-CHOP in High Risk DLBCL Peter Martin, M.D., discusses a trial of the combination of oral azacitidine (CC-486) and R-CHOP in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). This... Read more
