Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Ilkay Us

We hope you enjoy watching our new video and taking a tour of our facilities and laboratories and learning more about how we’re reinventing medicine, with our Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. Dr. Laura Martin, Hiranmayi Ravichandran, Ilkay Us, and Alexandros Sigaras, M.S.

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Immunotherapy unleashes the power of the immune system to fight cancer. However, for some patients, immunotherapy doesn’t work, and new research may help explain why. When immune cells called T lymphocytes infiltrate malignant tumors, the genetic program of those T cells and the developmental path they then follow, may affect their response to immunotherapy and predict overall patient survival, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The results overturn the...

Dr. Pinkal Desai

Dear Members of the Englander Institute,

In the past few months we have taken advantage of annual events like #DoctorsDay, #InternationalWomensDay, and #WomenInScience to celebrate and showcase our staff on social media. April brought another opportunity with #LabWeek! I hope you enjoy following our social media posts about these events as much as I do.

On a related note, I was happy to recognize #DNADay on April...