Upcoming events!
Register today for the BioMedical Engineering Symposium at Weill Cornell Medicine, presented by the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, the Mining School of Biomedical Engineering, and WCM’s Neurological Surgery departments, on May 22 & 23rd, 2023. Symposium Co-Chairs: Dr. Olivier Elemento, Susan Pannullo & Marjolein van der Meulen suggest the following departments would be most interested in the event: Applied & Engineering Physics, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, other Engineering departments and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Past Events
February 17-19
THE 2023 HEALTH HACKATHON WAS AN IN-PERSON INTERDISCIPLINARY EVENT THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER STUDENTS FROM ACROSS DEGREES, MAJORS, AND SCHOOLS! TEAMS COMPRISED OF MEDICAL, BUSINESS, ENGINEERING, AND DESIGN STUDENTS CREATED SOLUTIONS TO NEEDS IN HUMAN HEALTH & WELLNESS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN $5,000!
Thursday, January 26th at 12:30 PM
EIPM Precision Medicine Conference
“Unusual Presentation of Advanced Urothelial Cancer in a Young Patient”
EIPM’s Dr. Daniela Guevara
Thursday, August 25th at Noon
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“The (R)evolution in the Management of Urothelial Cancer” Progress Made and a Look into the Future”
Petros Grivas, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Washington
THURSDAY, August 11th at Noon
EIPM Seminar Series lecture
“Cancer Epigenetics and Epitranscriptomics: From Knowledge to Applications”
Manel Esteller M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Joseph Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, University of Barcelona and ICREA
TUESDAY, JULY 26TH, 2022
EIPM SEMINAR SERIES LECTURE
“CHROMATIN REGULATORS IN CANCER: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND THERAPEUTIC OPPORTUNITIES”
DR. MARK DAWSON
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
PRECISION MEDICINE CASE CONFERENCE
25 Y/O MALE W/ SICKLE-CELL TRAIT, PRESENTING WITH METASTATIC RENAL MEDULLARY CARCINOMA
JOSEPH E. THOMAS, M.D., WCM HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY FELLOW
CME SERIES DIRECTOR CORA N. STERNBERG, M.D., FACP, CLINICAL DIRECTOR, ENGLANDER INSTITUTE FOR PRECISION MEDICINE
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
SEMINAR SERIES LECTURE
“THE QUEST FOR AN EFFECTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER”
JAMES GULLEY, M.D., PH.D.
HEAD, IMMUNOTHERAPY SECTION CHIEF, GENITOURINARY MALIGNANCIES BRANCH & DIRECTOR, MEDICAL ONCOLOGY SERVICE CENTER FOR CANCER RESEARCH NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, NIH
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022, NOON TO 1 PM
EIPM Seminar Series lecture, “Circulating Tumor DNA to Monitor the Complexity of Cancer,” presented by
Dr. Sarah-Jane Dawson
Professor, University of Melbourne, Co-Head, Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Program
TUESDAY, JUNE 14, NOON TO 1 PM
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“Using Patient-Derived Models for Drug Discovery and Functional Precision Oncology in Advanced Breast Cancer”
Alana Welm, Ph.D.
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
TUESDAY, MAY 17TH AT NOON
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“Precision Medicine at Scale.”
Joseph Lehar
SVP Strategy & Business Development, Owkin
Thursday, May 12th at noon
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“Quantitative Mechanical Characterization of in Vitro Tumor Models.”
Dr. Kazunori Hoshino
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut
Wednesday, May 11th, 5-6 PM
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“How Good Genes Become Evil in Cancer”
Prof. H.R. (Ruud) Delwel, PhD
Scientific investigator, Professor at Erasmus MC, Dept. of Hematology
Friday, April 15th. From 10–11AM
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“Sketching Open and Closed Chromatin, One Cell at a Time.”
Giovanni Tonon, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Omics Sciences, and Head of the Functional Genomics of Cancer Unit at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022. Noon to 1 PM
EIPM Seminar Series Lecture
“RNA Delivery is Going Beyond the Liver: From Gene Silencing to Gene Editing.”
Dan Peer, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University
THURSDAY, March 10, 2022, Noon to 1 PM
The Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Seminar Series
“Ageing and Cancer in the Post-Genomic Era”
J. Pedro Magalhaes, Ph.D., Professor, University of Liverpool
THURSDAY, March 03, 2022, Noon to 1 PM
Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Seminar Series Lecture
“PATIENT-DERIVED TUMOR ORGANOIDS FOR FUNCTIONAL PRECISION MEDICINE APPLICATIONS”
ALICE SORAGNI, PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, UCLA
MEMBER, JONSSON COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 03 NOON – 1:00 PM
Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Conference
“83-year-old patient with metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary: Unraveling molecular underpinnings to predict tissue of origin,” by
Majd Al Assaad, M.D., EIPM Research Fellow in Precision Medicine
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2022 FROM NOON – 1:00 PM
The EIPM Presents a Seminar Series Lecture
“Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Imaging,” by Dr. Hugo Aerts
Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Brigham and Women’s Hospital
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2022 FROM NOON – 1:00 PM
The EIPM and Meyer Cancer Center Present a Metastasis Working Group Seminar
“Therapeutic targeting of cancer fitness gene MTDH in metastatic cancers,” by
Yibin Dang, PhD, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
And “Low-dose carbon monoxide, an unconventional drug, halts cancer metastasis,” by
Yi-Chieh Nancy Du, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
December 7th at Noon–Seminar Series Lecture
Aziz Nazha, M.D.
Practice Manager
Data and Machine Learning, AWS Professional Services
Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
“Artificial Intelligence in Hematologic Malignancies.”
November 18th at Noon–Precision Medicine Conference
15-year old Male Patient with Pilocytic Astrocytoma
Whole-genome sequencing, whole-exome sequencing and RNA-seq
Case presented by Majd Al Assaad, M.D., Research Fellow in Precision Medicine
Discussion with Dave Pisapia MD, Ben Liechty MD, and Asher Marks MD
CME Series Director Cora N. Sternberg, M.D., FACP EIPM Clinical Director and Professor of Medicine
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Zoom mtg. info. emailed to WCM staff
November 11th at Noon
Denis Wirtz, Vice Provost for Research
TH Smoot Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pathology, Oncology
Director Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center
Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
3D spatial maps of human tumors at single-cell resolution
October 27th at Noon–Metastasis Working Group Seminar
Dr. Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Cornell University, “Regulation of metastasis by extracellular matrix,” and
Dr. Dawid G. Nowak, Weill Cornell Medicine, “EvoCaP – A Mouse Model for Quantitative Understanding of Evolution in Prostate Cancer Metastasis.”
TUESDAY, 10/19/2021 NOON
MICHAEL D. GERSHON, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
“Serotonin, Varicella zoster virus, and the bowel.”
TUESDAY, 8/24 12:00-1 PM
Sana Raoof, M.D., Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology Resident
Memorial Sloan Kettering
“Looking beyond scopes, scans, and smears: the future of cancer screening.”
Tuesday, 8/10 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Alex T. Ramsey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
“Advancing the development of genetically-informed behavioral health interventions.”
Thursday, 7/22 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Prof. Barbara Treutlein, Ph.D.
Quantitative Developmental Biology Lab
ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)
Basel, Switzerland
“Human brain organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies.”
Thursday, 6/10 10:00am – 11:00am
Gabi Kastenmüller, Ph.D.
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Germany
“Metabolomics: a tool for precision medicine in complex diseases.”
Tuesday, 5/18 at 10 AM
Julie Rayes, Ph.D.
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences
University of Birmingham
“Novel targets of thromboinflammation during infection and hemolysis.”
Tuesday, 5/11, 11:00 AM — Noon
Elly Tanaka, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
“Unravelling the molecular basis of limb regeneration.”
Thursday, 4/29 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Miriam S. Udler, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Attending in Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, MGH Diabetes Genetics Clinic
Investigator, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine
Associate Member, Broad Institute
“Toward Precision Medicine in Type 2 Diabetes: Deciphering the spectrum of genetic variation.”
Thursday, 4/22 Noon
Adam Bass, M.D.
Director, Center for Precision Cancer Medicine
Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center
“Translating the Genome in Gastroesophageal Cancer.”
Tuesday, 4/6 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Special Seminar
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Investigator, HHMI
Harvard Medical School
“GWAS to Genetic Therapy: Fetal Hemoglobin Reactivation for the Hemoglobin Disorders.”
Wednesday, 3/10 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Sabah Kadri, PhD
Director of Bioinformatics, Pathology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
“Unravelling the molecular basis of limb regeneration.”
Tuesday, 2/23 10:00am – 11:00am
Ana Domingos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. Physiology, Anatomy, Genetics at University of Oxford and Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
Talk Title: “Neuroimmunity at the sympathetic neuro-adipose axis”
Tuesday, 2/9 10:00am – 11:00am – Special Seminar (No CME)
Mathieu Andreux, PhD
Senior Data Scientist – FL Research
Talk Title: “Federated Learning in Collaborative Clinical Research”
Friday, 2/5 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Chong-Xiang Pan, M.D., Ph.D, MS
Staff Physician
Hematology/Oncology
VA Boston Healthcare System
Faculty of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, 1/29/2021 at Noon
Razelle Kurzrock, M.D.
Director, Rare Tumor Clinic
Moores Cancer Center
University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: “Precision Medicine in the Clinic: Next Generation Studies.”
Tuesday, 1/12/2021
David Wheeler, Ph.D., Director for Precision Genomics
Department of Computational Biomedicine
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Talk Title: “Exceptional Responders: Inferences from N of 1 Experiments.”
Tuesday, 12/15 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Rumi Chunara, PhD, Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, and Biostats/Epidemiology
New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, and College of Global Public Health
Title: “Social Determinants, Data and Precision Medicine”
Tuesday, 12/1 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Anant Madabhushi, PhD, Coulter Donnell Institute Professor
Director, Ctr. for Computational Imaging & Personalized Diagnostics
Departments of Biomedical Engineering; Urology, Radiology, Pathology, Radiation Oncology; Electrical Engineering & Computational Science and General Medical Sciences.
Case Western Reserve University
Research Health Scientist
Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center
Tuesday, November 10th from 1:00pm–2:00pm
David Artz, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences (Courtesy)
Weill Cornell Medicine
“Precision Medicine’s Achilles Heel: Pharma’s Reliance on a Handicapped Companion Diagnostic”
Monday, 10/12 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Carlos Cordon-Cardo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Professor and Director, Department of Pathology,
Mount Sinai Health System
Title: “COVID-19: “Pathophysiology and Staging of a New Disease Implications for Clinical Management.”
Monday, 10/19 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Qian Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computing and Information Science
Cornell University
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 (Time – TBD)
Roderic Guigó Serra, Ph.D.
Investigator at Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica (IMIM). Barcelona, (Spain)
Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Coordinator of the Bioinformatics Programme at the Centre de Regulació Genòmica
Title – Upcoming
Zoom presentation details available to WCM staff via email.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020, Noon
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D.
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
“Highly Biocompatible Zwitterionic Materials for Biomedical applications”
Zoom presentation details available to WCM staff via email.
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Monday, August 31, 2020 10:00am
Jan Korbel, Ph.D.
Group Leader and Senior Scientist
EMBL Heidelberg
Zoom presentation details available to WCM staff via email.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics
Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Stanford Medicine
Zoom presentation details available to WCM staff via email.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Theodore Alexandrov, Ph.D.
Team Leader, Head of Metabolomics Core Facility
EMBL Heidelberg
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy
University of California San Diego
ERC Consolidator Investigator
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 @12:45 PM
Sarah J. Hill, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Pathologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 @1:00pm
Thomas Campion, Ph.D.
Director, Research Informatics
Associate Director, CTSC Clinical Informatics
Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy & Research
“Supporting Clinical and Translational Researchers with EPD”
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020, Noon
Rulla Tamimi, ScD, Division Chief of Epidemiology
Associate Director of Population Science, WCM Meyer Cancer Center
“Integration of Molecular Epidemiology and Imaging:
Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Pathogenesis of Great Cancer.”
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Monday, May 11, 2020
“Bringing Precision Medicine to Parkinson’s Disease.”
Claire Hinchcliffe, M.D. Professor in Neurology and Neuroscience Weill Cornell Medicine
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December 12, 2019
“Molecular Classification of Thyroid Tumors: Impact on Patient Management”
Yuri E. Nikifovov, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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December 11, 2019
“Bladder Cancer Genomics in a Post-TCGA World” Seth Paul Lerner, M.D., FACS
Professor, Urology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX,
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November 12, 2019
“The Melting Pot of the MHC II Immunopeptidome”
Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D.
EIPM’s Associate Director for Precision Medicine Immunology
Professor of Radiation Oncology Weill Cornell Medicine
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October 08, 2019
“A pan-cancer perspective to cancer classification”
Katherine A. Hoadley, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Genetics UNC-Chapel Hill
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September 25, 2019
“Do differences make a difference: human immune and single cell variations“
John Tsang, PhD Chief, Multiscale Systems Biology Section Co-Director, NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) September 25, 2019
“The 100,000 Genomes Project: New Genes for Rare Blood Diseases“ Willem H Ouwehand, FMedSci Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute & NHS Blood and Transplant September 23, 2019 
“Using Stem Cells to Model Healthy and Cancerous Kidney Tissue“ Leif Oxburgh, DVM, PhD Scientific Director and Vice President for Basic and Clinical Science The Rogosin Institute
“Understanding Hirschsprung Disease” Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D. Director, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics NYU School of Medicine Tuesday, June 4, 2019 
“Unraveling the Role of Natural Killer Cells in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder” John Sfakianos, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Urologic Oncology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Thursday, May 16, 2019 
“mRNA-Based Regenerative Genetic Medicine Approach for Ischemic Heart Disease” Lior Zangi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Friday, May 10, 2019 
“Molecular Aunties of Bladder Cancer” David J. McConkey, Ph.D.
Director, Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute
Professor of Urology
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
“Finding Genes in Genomes to Match with Bleeding and Platelet Disorders” Kathleen Freson, Ph.D.
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
Friday, April 12, 2019
“Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of a Molecule: The Biology of Tubulin and its Loss” Dan Sackett, Ph.D.
Division of Basic and Translational Biophysics
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
“Organoid Modeling of Stem Cells and Tumor Immunity” Calvin Kuo, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
“Banking With Precision: Predicting Red Blood Cell Phenotypes from Next Generation Sequencing Data” Celina Montemayor, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Transfusion Medicine NIH Clinical Center Tuesday, April 2, 2019
“The Antigen Map: Decoding the Immune System” Ravi Pandya Principal Software Architect Microsoft Tuesday, March 12, 2019
“Targeting a Novel Genetic Driver of the ABC-like Subtype of DLBCL”
Michael Green, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma & Department of Genomic Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center
Friday, January 11, 2019
“Precision diagnostics and precision medicine – Experiences from Tuebingen, Germany”
Saskia Biskup, M.D., Ph.D. Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research Co-founder at Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics GmbH
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
“Genomic Medicine and the NICU / PICU of the Future”
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, D.Sc. President and CEO Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Thursday, December 4, 2018
“The Human Glycome Project – Exploring the New Frontier of Personalised Medicine”
Gordon Lauc, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Zagreb Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Personalised Healthcare Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh Honorary Professor of the Kings College London
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 10:00am
Weill Greenberg Center, Room WGC-C
“Developing and Implementing Precision Medicine Approaches in a Complex Academic Medical Center”
David B. Roth, MD, PhD
Simon Flexner Professor
Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Penn Center for Precision Medicine
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 12:45pm
Belfer Research Building , Room 302 B
“Rational Metabolic Engineering – a Tool for Cancer Treatment” Anna Halama, PhD Research Associate Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Education City, Qatar Foundation Friday, October 5, 2018 at 12:45pm 1300 York Avenue, Room LC 504
“From Genomic Questions to Clinical Answers in Cancer” Kenan Onel, MD, PhD Chief, Medical Genetics and Human Genomics Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Wellness Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenberg Center, Room A
“Cancer Epigenetics: From Knowledge to Applications” Manel Esteller, MD, PhD Director, Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) ICREA Research Professor L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Genetics Chairman, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room 204 B/C
“Diagnosing Disease on a Microchip: Scaling up Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostics” David Issadore, PhD Assistant Professor Bioengineering Electrical & Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenburg Building, Room WGC A/B
“281 Lessons Learned from Scaling NGS-based Expanded Carrier Screening” Lisa Edelmann, PhD, FACMG Associate Professor Executive Director, Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room BB 302-D
“Nanomedicine to Improve the Therapeutic Index of Precision Medicine” Presented by: Daniel A. Heller, PhD Head, Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, CornellUniversity
Tuesday, April 3 at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 204 B/C
“Monitoring Clonal Dynamics of Cancer in the Clinic” Presented by: Dr. Shridar GanesanRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Tuesday, May 1st at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 302-A
“Molecular Classification of Thyroid Tumors: Impact on Patient Management” Yuri Nikiforov, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM 
“Bladder Cancer Genomics in a Post-TCGA World” Seth Paul Lerner, M.D., FACS
Professor, Urology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 3:00 PM
“The Melting Pot of the MHC II Immunopeptidome” Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D. EIPM’s Associate Director for Precision Medicine Immunology Professor of Radiation Oncology Weill Cornell Medicine Tuesday, November 12th, 12:45 PM
“A pan-cancer perspective to cancer classification“ Katherine A. Hoadley, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Genetics UNC-Chapel Hill October 08, 2019 “Do differences make a difference: human immune and single cell variations“ John Tsang, PhD Chief, Multiscale Systems Biology Section Co-Director, NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) September 25, 2019
“The 100,000 Genomes Project: New Genes for Rare Blood Diseases“ Willem H Ouwehand, FMedSci Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute & NHS Blood and Transplant September 23, 2019 “Using Stem Cells to Model Healthy and Cancerous Kidney Tissue“ Leif Oxburgh, DVM, PhD Scientific Director and Vice President for Basic and Clinical Science The Rogosin Institute
“Understanding Hirschsprung Disease” Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D. Director, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics NYU School of Medicine Tuesday, June 4, 2019 “Unraveling the Role of Natural Killer Cells in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder” John Sfakianos, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Urologic Oncology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Thursday, May 16, 2019 “mRNA-Based Regenerative Genetic Medicine Approach for Ischemic Heart Disease” Lior Zangi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Friday, May 10, 2019 “Molecular Aunties of Bladder Cancer” David J. McConkey, Ph.D.
Director, Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute
Professor of Urology
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
“Finding Genes in Genomes to Match with Bleeding and Platelet Disorders” Kathleen Freson, Ph.D.
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
Friday, April 12, 2019
“Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of a Molecule: The Biology of Tubulin and its Loss” Dan Sackett, Ph.D.
Division of Basic and Translational Biophysics
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
“Organoid Modeling of Stem Cells and Tumor Immunity” Calvin Kuo, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
“Banking With Precision: Predicting Red Blood Cell Phenotypes from Next Generation Sequencing Data” Celina Montemayor, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Transfusion Medicine NIH Clinical Center Tuesday, April 2, 2019
“The Antigen Map: Decoding the Immune System” Ravi Pandya Principal Software Architect Microsoft Tuesday, March 12, 2019
“Targeting a Novel Genetic Driver of the ABC-like Subtype of DLBCL”
Michael Green, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma & Department of Genomic Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center
Friday, January 11, 2019
“Precision diagnostics and precision medicine – Experiences from Tuebingen, Germany”
Saskia Biskup, M.D., Ph.D. Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research Co-founder at Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics GmbH
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
“Genomic Medicine and the NICU / PICU of the Future”
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, D.Sc. President and CEO Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Thursday, December 4, 2018
“The Human Glycome Project – Exploring the New Frontier of Personalised Medicine”
Gordon Lauc, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Zagreb Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Personalised Healthcare Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh Honorary Professor of the Kings College London
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 10:00am
Weill Greenberg Center, Room WGC-C
“Developing and Implementing Precision Medicine Approaches in a Complex Academic Medical Center”
David B. Roth, MD, PhD
Simon Flexner Professor
Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Penn Center for Precision Medicine
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 12:45pm
Belfer Research Building , Room 302 B
“Rational Metabolic Engineering – a Tool for Cancer Treatment” Anna Halama, PhD Research Associate Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Education City, Qatar Foundation Friday, October 5, 2018 at 12:45pm 1300 York Avenue, Room LC 504
“From Genomic Questions to Clinical Answers in Cancer” Kenan Onel, MD, PhD Chief, Medical Genetics and Human Genomics Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Wellness Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenberg Center, Room A
“Cancer Epigenetics: From Knowledge to Applications” Manel Esteller, MD, PhD Director, Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) ICREA Research Professor L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Genetics Chairman, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room 204 B/C
“Diagnosing Disease on a Microchip: Scaling up Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostics” David Issadore, PhD Assistant Professor Bioengineering Electrical & Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenburg Building, Room WGC A/B
“281 Lessons Learned from Scaling NGS-based Expanded Carrier Screening” Lisa Edelmann, PhD, FACMG Associate Professor Executive Director, Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room BB 302-D
“Nanomedicine to Improve the Therapeutic Index of Precision Medicine” Presented by: Daniel A. Heller, PhD Head, Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, CornellUniversity
Tuesday, April 3 at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 204 B/C
“Monitoring Clonal Dynamics of Cancer in the Clinic” Presented by: Dr. Shridar GanesanRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Tuesday, May 1st at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 302-A
“Molecular Classification of Thyroid Tumors: Impact on Patient Management” Yuri Nikiforov, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM “Bladder Cancer Genomics in a Post-TCGA World” Seth Paul Lerner, M.D., FACS
Professor, Urology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 3:00 PM
“The Melting Pot of the MHC II Immunopeptidome” Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D. EIPM’s Associate Director for Precision Medicine Immunology Professor of Radiation Oncology Weill Cornell Medicine Tuesday, November 12th, 12:45 PM
“A pan-cancer perspective to cancer classification“ Katherine A. Hoadley, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Genetics UNC-Chapel Hill October 08, 2019 “Do differences make a difference: human immune and single cell variations“ John Tsang, PhD Chief, Multiscale Systems Biology Section Co-Director, NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) September 25, 2019
“The 100,000 Genomes Project: New Genes for Rare Blood Diseases“ Willem H Ouwehand, FMedSci Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute & NHS Blood and Transplant September 23, 2019 “Using Stem Cells to Model Healthy and Cancerous Kidney Tissue“ Leif Oxburgh, DVM, PhD Scientific Director and Vice President for Basic and Clinical Science The Rogosin Institute
“Understanding Hirschsprung Disease” Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D. Director, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics NYU School of Medicine Tuesday, June 4, 2019 “Unraveling the Role of Natural Killer Cells in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder” John Sfakianos, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Urologic Oncology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Thursday, May 16, 2019 “mRNA-Based Regenerative Genetic Medicine Approach for Ischemic Heart Disease” Lior Zangi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Friday, May 10, 2019 “Molecular Aunties of Bladder Cancer” David J. McConkey, Ph.D.
Director, Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute
Professor of Urology
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
“Finding Genes in Genomes to Match with Bleeding and Platelet Disorders” Kathleen Freson, Ph.D.
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
Friday, April 12, 2019
“Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of a Molecule: The Biology of Tubulin and its Loss” Dan Sackett, Ph.D.
Division of Basic and Translational Biophysics
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
“Organoid Modeling of Stem Cells and Tumor Immunity” Calvin Kuo, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
“Banking With Precision: Predicting Red Blood Cell Phenotypes from Next Generation Sequencing Data” Celina Montemayor, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Transfusion Medicine NIH Clinical Center Tuesday, April 2, 2019
“The Antigen Map: Decoding the Immune System” Ravi Pandya Principal Software Architect Microsoft Tuesday, March 12, 2019
“Targeting a Novel Genetic Driver of the ABC-like Subtype of DLBCL”
Michael Green, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma & Department of Genomic Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center
Friday, January 11, 2019
“Precision diagnostics and precision medicine – Experiences from Tuebingen, Germany”
Saskia Biskup, M.D., Ph.D. Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research Co-founder at Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics GmbH
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
“Genomic Medicine and the NICU / PICU of the Future”
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, D.Sc. President and CEO Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Thursday, December 4, 2018
“The Human Glycome Project – Exploring the New Frontier of Personalised Medicine”
Gordon Lauc, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Zagreb Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Personalised Healthcare Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh Honorary Professor of the Kings College London
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 10:00am
Weill Greenberg Center, Room WGC-C
“Developing and Implementing Precision Medicine Approaches in a Complex Academic Medical Center”
David B. Roth, MD, PhD
Simon Flexner Professor
Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Penn Center for Precision Medicine
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 12:45pm
Belfer Research Building , Room 302 B
“Rational Metabolic Engineering – a Tool for Cancer Treatment” Anna Halama, PhD Research Associate Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Education City, Qatar Foundation Friday, October 5, 2018 at 12:45pm 1300 York Avenue, Room LC 504
“From Genomic Questions to Clinical Answers in Cancer” Kenan Onel, MD, PhD Chief, Medical Genetics and Human Genomics Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Wellness Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenberg Center, Room A
“Cancer Epigenetics: From Knowledge to Applications” Manel Esteller, MD, PhD Director, Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) ICREA Research Professor L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Genetics Chairman, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room 204 B/C
“Diagnosing Disease on a Microchip: Scaling up Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostics” David Issadore, PhD Assistant Professor Bioengineering Electrical & Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 12:45pm Weill Greenburg Building, Room WGC A/B
“281 Lessons Learned from Scaling NGS-based Expanded Carrier Screening” Lisa Edelmann, PhD, FACMG Associate Professor Executive Director, Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 12:45pm Belfer Research Building, Room BB 302-D
“Nanomedicine to Improve the Therapeutic Index of Precision Medicine” Presented by: Daniel A. Heller, PhD Head, Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, CornellUniversity
Tuesday, April 3 at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 204 B/C
“Monitoring Clonal Dynamics of Cancer in the Clinic” Presented by: Dr. Shridar GanesanRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Tuesday, May 1st at 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, Room 302-A
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 @11:00 AM
Liron Yoffe, Ph.D.
Postdoc Associate
Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Zoom meeting details available to WCM staff via email
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Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Journal Club
Monday, June 1st, 2020
“Zebrafish patient avatars in cancer biology and precision cancer therapy.”
Troy Kane, EIPM Research Technician
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Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Journal Club: 
“Adaptable and hemodynamic endothelial cells for physiological vascularization of Organoids and Tumoroids.”
By Shahin Rafii, M.D., Director, Ansary Stem Cell Institute, Chief, Division of Regenerative Medicine, and Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 11:00 AM
“Chromosome Segregation Errors Generate a Diverse Spectrum of Simple and Complex Genomic Rearrangements. Nature Genetics 2019” Emily Adney, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Imielinski Lab June 21, 2019
“The Chromatin Accessibility Landscape of Primary Human Cancers. Science.2018″ David J Pisapia, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Thursday, December 13, 2018
“A Structured Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Revealed by Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging. Cell. 2018” Presented by: Dylan McNally, PhD Candidate Elemento Lab Weill Cornell Medicine Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 4:00pm Belfer Research Building, Room 302-D
“Genomic atlas of the human plasma proteome. Nature. 2018” Presented by: Jonas Zierer, PhD Elemento Lab Weill Cornell Medicine Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 5:00pm Weill Greenburg Center, Room WGC-C
“Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell. 2018.” Presented by: Sinan Ramazanoglu Bioinformatics Analyst Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 5:00pm Belfer Research Building, Room 204 A/B
“Transcript-indexed ATAC-seq for precision immune profiling. Nature Medicine. 2018.” Presented by: Ashley Stephen Doane Graduate StudentTuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm
Belfer Research Building, Room 302 C/D
“The Immune Landscape of Cancer” Presented by: Panagiotis Vlachostergios, MD, PhDTuesday, May 3rd at 5:00pm
Weill Greenburg Center, Room WGC A/B
“DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours“ Capper, et al., Nature; 2018 
An article published in Nature. Presented by David Pisapia, M.D. Thursday, April 19, 2018 05:00 pm Belfer Research Building, Room 302 C “NK Cells Stimulate Recruitment of cDC1 into the Tumor Microenvironment Promoting Cancer Immune Control” Bottcher. J, et al., Cell; 2018 An article published in Nature Communications. Presented by Alison Ferguson Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine Thursday, March 22, 2018 05:00 pm Belfer Research Building, Room 302 C/D “A machine learning approach to integrate big data for precision medicine in acute myeloid leukemia.” 
An article published in Nature Communications. Presented by Coryander Gilvary Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine Thursday, March 8, 2018 05:00 pm C-405 at 1300 York Avenue 
“Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer” An article published in Nature, the international journal. Presented by Bhavneet Bhinder Senior Bioinformatics Analyst Weill Cornell Medicine February 22, 2018 05:15 pm Weill Greenberg Center, Room WGC-A
Precision Medicine Tumor Board
THURSDAY, 1/23/2020 at 2:00pm
75-year-old with chronic lymphocytic leukemia–Presented Seung Nam, MD 67-year-old female with persistent chronic lymphocytic leukemia–Presented Wael Al Zoughbi, MD, PhD Friday, June 21, 2019
75-year-old with chronic lymphocytic leukemia Presented Seung Nam, MD 67-year-old female with persistent chronic lymphocytic leukemia Presented Wael Al Zoughbi, MD, PhD Friday, June 21, 2019, 2:30 P.M. Belfer Research BuildingRoom 204 B/CThe Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Tumor Board presents the following:
50-Year-Old Female with Breast Cancer 55-Year-Old Male with newly diagnosed Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma Presenting: Shaham Beg, MD Research Fellow, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Friday, October 19, 2018, 2:30 P.M. Belfer Research BuildingRoom 302 C
55-Year-Old Female with Colorectal Cancer and Clear Cell Type Endometrial Cancer Presenting: Wei Song, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Director, Clinical Genomics Laboratory Friday, September, 28 2018, 2:30 P.M. Belfer Research BuildingRoom 204 A/B
2-year-old Female with Neuroepithelial Neoplasm Presented By: Samaneh Motanagh, M.D. Pathology Research Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine Friday, April 27, 2018, 2:30 P.M. Weill Cornell Medical College – 1300 York Ave Conference Room C-405
63-Year-Old Male with Langerhans Cell Sarcoma 55-Year-Old Female with Neuroendocrine Cancer of the Pancreas Presenting: Shaham Beg, M.D. Pathology Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine & Johannes (Koen) van der Mijn, M.D., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Pharmacology Friday, March 16, 2018, 2:30 P.M. Weill Cornell Medical College – 1300 York Ave Conference Room C-405
51-Year-Old Female Poorly differentiated Breast Carcinoma & 34-Year-Old Female with Ductal Carcinoma of Breast Presenters are: Jordan Baum, M.D. Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellow & Jonas Heymann, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Friday, February 16, 2018, 2:30 P.M. Weill Cornell Medical College – 1300 York Ave, Conference Room C-405
The Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Working Group: Animal Models
“Modeling human cancer in zebrafish: new insights and approaches” “A vision to enhance precision medicine using PDX models” Presentations by: Yariv Houvras, M.D., Ph.D. and Giorgio Inghirami, M.DApril 19 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Weill Greenberg Center 1305 York Avenu, Room WGC-A
Monday, October 28, 2019 – DAY
Monday, October 28, 2019 – DAY 1: Cornell Tech Campus
Tata Innovation Center, 141/151 11 E Loop Rd, New York, NY 6:00am Bus departure from Ithaca (Schurman Hall, 618 Tower Road) 11:30am Stop at Helmsley; ~12:00pm arrival at Cornell Tech) 12:00pm Registration and Lunch 12:30pm Welcome and Introductions: Precision Medicine Overview and Opportunities for Cross Campus Collaboration Open to the entire campus via livestream broadcast
- Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. (WCM)
- Cora Sternberg, M.D. (WCM)
- Ankur Singh, Ph.D. (Cornell University-Ithaca)
- Tanzeem Choudhury, Ph.D. (Cornell Tech)
1:00pm Session I – A Personalized Approach to Patient Care Talks + Question – Open to the entire campus via livestream broadcast
- David Nanus, M.D., “Precision Medicine in Cancers: Does it make a difference?”
- Wei Song, M.D., Ph.D. “To build precision diagnosis for precision medicine”
- Lisa Newman, M.D. “Opportunities to Reduce Disparities through Precision Medicine”
- Kevin Holcomb, M.D., “Cancer Genomics in Gynecologic Oncology: Toward a Paradigm of Precision Medicine”
- M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross, M.D., Ph.D., “Accelerating a Precision Medicine Approach to Neurological Diagnosis and Care”
- Richard Isaacson, M.D. “A Clinical Precision Medicine Approach to Alzheimer’s Prevention”
- Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D. “Emerging role of polygenic risk scores in cardiovascular medicine”
3:20pm Coffee break followed by brief remarks by Greg Morrisett 3:30pm Session II – Innovations in Healthcare Technology Talks + Question – Open to the entire campus via livestream broadcast
- Tanzeem Chodhurry, Ph.D. “Closing the sensing-to-intervention loop for health”
- Andrea Sboner, Ph.D. “Mixed Reality for Precision Medicine Labs”
- Jason Mezey, Ph.D., “Big Data Opportunities to Drive Precision Medicine in Clinical Trials.”
- JP Pollak, Ph.D., “Digital technologies for personalization and assessment”
- Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D. “Deep learning for assessment and selection of blastocysts after IVF”
5:30pm Poster Session: Envisioning Biological Models: Tumor Organoids, Patient Derived Models and Artificial Intelligence With Refreshments (beer/wine and light snacks)
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 DAY 2: Weill Cornell Medicine Campus
Belfer Research Building, 413 East 69th Street New York, NY 10021 – Room BB 302-B/C/D 7:30am Breakfast at Weill Cornell Medicine 8:15am Overview of Day 1 by co-chairs 8:30am Session III – From Bench to Bedside: Accelerating Clinical Research Talks + Question – Open to the entire campus via livestream broadcast
- Karsten Suhre, Ph.D., “Bringing metabolomics and proteomics to the clinic.”
- Iwijn De Vlaminck, Ph.D., “A liquid biopsy for infectious disease.”
- Paul Soloway, Ph.D., “Single-cell characterization of a neurodevelopmental disorder.”
- Yariv Houvras, M.D., Ph.D. “Building patient specific genetic models of cancer in zebrafish”
- Monica Guzman, Ph.D. “Targeting the epichaperome as a tailored therapeutic approach”
- Marcin Imielinski, M.D., Ph.D., “Novel patterns of complex rearrangement across thousands of cancer genome graphs.”
Panel Session: Discussion about a specific topic amongst a selected group of panelists who share differing perspectives in front of a large audience. Breakdown: Panelist introductions and initial comments (2’ each); Moderator-curated questions directed to the panelists (10’); Questions from the audience directed to a panelist(s) (10’) 10:30am Coffee Break 10:40am Panel 1: Technology in Clinical Care – Moderators, Deborah Estrin and Olivier Elemento with panelists: JP Pollack, Alex Sigaras, and Pegah Khosravi. 11:10am Panel 2: Translational Research Together — Moderators, Cora Sternberg and Alicia Alonso with panelists: Laura Martin, Ankur Singh, Ben Cosgrove, and Karsten Suhre -Breakout into separate working groups- 11:45am Working Groups – Forum for dialogue and interaction around designated issue – Each working group may stimulate new research questions and project ideas, challenge held convictions on a subject, and contribute to the development of new communities of scholars, generating ideas to submit for funding among other benefits.
- WG1 (Belfer 501): Liquid Biopsies. Discussion Leaders: Iwijn De Vlaminck
- WG2 (WGC B): Artificial Intelligence for Cancer. Discussion Leaders: Alex Sigaras
- WG3 (Belfer 1401): Engineering Ex Vivo Models. Discussion Leaders: Laura Martin
- WG4 (Belfer 901): Engaging and Educating Precision Medicine Patients. Discussion Leaders: Cora Sternberg, Ravi Sharaf; Erica Philips
12:45pm Break 1pm Working Lunch–Report/recommendations from individual working groups (~10’) and ensuing discussion (~10’) each 3pm Coffee Break 3:15 Overall recommendations and action items from the Symposium. 4:15pm Summary, Concluding Remarks, and Next Steps (Co-Chairs) 4:30pm Meeting adjourned–Boxed meals for traveling guests only 5pm Bus departure from NYC to Ithaca
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Innovations and Emerging Opportunities in Personalized Medicine
Thursday, November 15, 2018 Belfer Research Building 413 East 69th Street, New York, NY 8:00am-5:00pm
Questions? Contact Marie Normile at man3014@med.cornell.edu
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7:30am |
Registration and Breakfast |
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8:00-8:05am |
Augustine M.K. Choi, M.D. Opening Remarks |
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8:05-8:20am |
Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell: Present and Future |
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Advances in Research |
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8:20-8:40am |
Alicia Alonso, Ph.D. Not only mutations! Epigenomics for Precision Medicine |
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8:40-9:00am |
Juan Miguel Mosquera, M.D., M.Sc. Discovery, Collaboration and Application at EIPM |
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9:00-9:20am |
Dolores J. Lamb, Ph.D., HCLD (ABB) Genomic Basis of Genitourinary Birth Defects |
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10:00-10:20am |
Coffee Break |
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Technology and Cutting Edge Solutions |
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10:20-10:40am |
M. Elizabeth Ross, M.D. Ph.D. When exomes are not enough: Approaches to working through the unresolved neurological cases |
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10:40-11:00am |
Marcin Imielinski, M.D. Ph.D. Signatures of complex structural variation across thousands of cancer genome graphs |
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11:00-11:20am |
Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D. Novel algorithms for Linked-Read sequencing data with applications in whole genome determination and metagenomics |
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11:20-11:40pm |
Andrea Sboner, Ph.D. Cutting-edge bioinformatics technologies and tools to foster Precision Medicine |
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11:40-12:00pm |
Benjamin Hopkins, Ph.D. EIPM Organoid Platform, Working to Get to the Bedside |
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12:00-1:00pm |
Networking Lunch EIPM INFO BOOTHS |
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1:00-1:10pm |
Cora Sternberg, M.D. Genomics in Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment |
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1:10-1:30pm |
David M. Nanus, M.D. Precision Medicine in GU Cancers: Does it make a difference? |
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1:30-1:50pm |
Allyson J. Ocean, M.D. Let’s Win Together: Turning Research into Response Through Precision Medicine |
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1:50-2:10pm |
Noah Greco, M.B.A. EIPM Case Management |
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2:10-2:20pm |
William H Rodgers, Ph.D., M.D. Tissue is the issue – the NYPQ Biospecimen Repository |
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2:20-2:40pm |
Coffee Break |
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Collaborative Research |
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2:40-3:00pm |
Monica L. Guzman, Ph.D. Targeting the epichaperome |
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3:00-3:20pm |
Yariv Houvras, M.D., Ph.D. Building personalized models of cancer in zebrafish: Avatars for drug discovery |
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3:20-3:40pm |
Ankur Singh, Ph.D. Deploying Materials-based Engineered Organoids For Personalized Medicine and Immunology |
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3:40-4:00pm |
Paraskevi (Evi) Giannakakou, Ph.D. A Molecular, Computational, and Clinical Translational Approach to Overcome Drug Resistance in Cancer |
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4:00pm |
Closing Remarks Refreshments and Networking |