Dear Friends & Members of the Englander Institute,
Congratulations to our Chief Research Officer Bishoy Faltas, M.D. on earning an American Cancer Society 4-year $1 million Research Scholar Grant to support his project, “Germline-somatic interactions as drivers and therapeutic targets in bladder cancer.”
Thank you again for your continued hard work and dedication to our mission.
Sincerely,
Olivier Elemento, Ph.D.
News Coverage & Awards
Congratulations to Chief Research Officer Bishoy Faltas, M.D. on earning the first AACR "Innovative Bladder Cancer Research Award"!
EIPM colleagues, including Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. and Paraskevi Giannakakou Ph.D. were featured in an April 13th Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom article "WCM Investigators Empowering Cancer Researchers with AI." 
Another recent Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom article "Collaboration Key to Tackling Rare Blood Cancers," on April 9th explored a recent Blood Advances paper by WCM's Lymphoma specialist Dr. Jia Ruan, highlighted the strong collaborative work of developing molecular therapeutic and prognostic models for a variety of lymphomas with EIPM Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D.
Be sure to read the really interesting SciTechDaily article "AI May Soon Detect Cancer Just by Listening to You Speak" about the Bridge2AI consortium that the EIPM and Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. helped create!
Events
Thanks to Dr. Alokkumar Jha, Assistant Professor of Research in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, for presenting the EIPM Precision Medicine AI Working Group talk, "A Foundation Model Augmented Polygenic Risk Score for Neural Tube Defects," on April 24th. 
An all-star panel of experts including Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. convened in Uris Auditorium on April 28th for "AI to Advance Medicine: From Research to Practice."
Publications
"Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)-Induced 68Ga-PSMA PET Bone Flare," was published in Clinical Nuclear Medicine on March 31st by Clinical Director Dr. Cora N. Sternberg.
"Whole Genome Sequencing of Locally Advanced and Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Unravels Relevant Molecular Signatures and Novel Events," was published in Pathology--Research and Practice on April 15th by Drs. Juan Miguel Mosquera & Eda Nur Kozan from the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department and the EIPM, with Dr. Baris Boyraz from the Pathology department, together with Pathology and EIPM colleagues Drs. Jesus Delgado-de la Mora, Majd Al Assaad, Shaham Beg, Alissa Semaan, David Wilkes, and Andrea Sboner, and EIPM Members Kathryn Gorski, Alexandros Sigaras, Noah Greco, Michael Sigouros, Jyothi Manohar, and Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. 
"EXaCT-2: an augmented and customizable oncology-focused whole exome sequencing platform," was published in NPJ Precision Oncology on April 21st by EIPM's Director of Innovation Dr. Alicia Alonso, with Dr. Andrea Sboner from the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department and the EIPM, and our colleagues Drs. Peter Waltman, Pooja Chandra, Ken W. Eng, David C. Wilkes, Director Olivier Elemento with EIPM colleagues Princesca Delpe, Bhavneet Bhinder, Jyothi Manohar, Troy Kane, Kathryn Gorski, Noah Greco, Manuele Simi, Jeffrey M. Tang, Pantelis Zisimopoulos, Abigail King, Alexandros Sigaras, Rob Kim, Jeffrey Catalano, Michael Sigouros, and Drs. Majd Al Assaad and Juan Miguel Mosquera from the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department and the EIPM.
"Serum metabolite patterns of adipose tissue distribution and body composition subphenotypes," was published in Lipids in Health and Disease on April 9th by Dr. Karsten Suhre. 
"Trial emulation for validating the clinical efficacy of a foundational AI model in embryo selection," was published in NPJ Digital Medicine on April 23rd by our colleagues Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha with Suraj Rajendran and WCM colleagues.
"Transcriptome sequencing of Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells reveals escape from NK cell recognition and an unfolded protein response," was published in Blood Cancer Journal on April 22nd by WCM colleagues Lisa Giulino-Roth and Ethel Cesarman, with EIPM's Bhavneet Binder, MS and Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. 
"Integrative Molecular Analysis Reveals Determinants of Clinical Outcomes in TP53-Mutated Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma," was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on April 29th by Drs. Bhavneet Binder and Director Olivier Elemento.
"Using an Artificial Intelligence Conversational Agent in Virtual Reality to Teach Serious Illness Communication Skills to Residents," was published in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education on April 15th by EIPM colleagues Alexandros Sigaras, MS and Sandhya Sriram, BS. 
"Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome With Predictive Modeling of Select Clinical Features," was published in the April 2026 edition of O&G Open by Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha and colleagues.
"Molecular landscape of prostate cancers with clival metastases," was published in the April 2026 edition of The Oncologist by Clinical Director Dr. Cora N. Sternberg and Dr. Emily Weg.
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