Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
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Dr. Pashtoon Kasi is the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine’s Director for Liquid Biopsy Research. He is an oncologist and researcher focused on treating patients with gastrointestinal cancers and other solid tumors using novel clinical trials and therapies. His focus has been on understanding the genomics and genetics of the underlying cancer, and to help treat these cancers in a more personalized fashion.

His research and utilization of non-invasive tests...

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Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian have used advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of diseased lung tissue in severe COVID-19 and other infectious lung diseases. In the study, published in the May 2021 issue of Nature, the researchers imaged autopsied lung tissue in a way that simultaneously highlighted dozens of molecular markers...

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Dear Members of the Englander Institute,

Congratulations to Dr. Jedd Wolchok, a highly esteemed physician-scientist who pioneered immunotherapy for the treatment of melanoma, on becoming the new...