September 2021 EIPM Director's Memo

September 7, 2021

Dear Members of the Englander Institute,

I’m very proud of our work over the past month, including enviable news media coverage in publications like The New York Times, the awards and grants we’ve earned, and research published in high-profile journals like The New England Journal of Medicine.

We recently partnered with the Meyer Cancer Center to form a Metastasis Working Group to share information and advance research. Please email our colleague Marie Normile...

The Future? Mixed-reality headsets in I.C.U.s

August 30, 2021

Meet you in the metaverse, maybe

Facebook’s virtual reality service Horizon Workrooms, announced this month, will allow users to don a VR headset, create an avatar and sit among colleagues in computer-generated corporate settings. It’s not the only company betting on enterprise VR. You...

Artist/Image Source: Sarah Field Sonnenberg

Key Immune Cells Maintain Healthy Gut Bacteria

August 17, 2021

Key Immune Cells Maintain Healthy Gut Bacteria to Protect Against Colorectal Cancer

An immune cell subset called innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) protects against colorectal cancer, in part by helping to maintain a healthy dialogue between the immune system and gut microbes, according to a new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. The finding opens the door to new strategies for treating this type of cancer.

The researchers, who published...