Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Pictured above are prostate cancer cells treated with a chemotherapy taxane drug labled with green fluorescence. The drug binds to and stablizes microtubules inside the cells, triggering cell death. Credit: Giannakakou Lab

A gene called FOXJ1 may drive resistance to taxane chemotherapy during treatment for advanced prostate cancer, according to a new study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The findings provide important new insights into why patients with metastatic disease often stop responding to a key class of life-...

Dr. Ekta Khurana

Dr. Ekta Khurana, an associate professor of systems and computational biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a two-year, $1 million Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to work with researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on an AI-based method for early detection of...

Dr. Cora Sternberg

March 2026 EIPM Director's Memo


Dear Friends & Members of the Englander Institute,