New Algorithm Reveals Patterns In How Tumors Extensively Rewrite Their DNA October 01, 2020 Cancer cells rearrange, copy, and delete their DNA in complex but distinct patterns, according to new research from a multi-institution team led by...
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Preclinical Model Suggests Why Common Immunotherapy May Not be Effective at Treating Breast Cancer A preclinical model of a common type of breast cancer provides new insight into why an immunotherapy known as checkpoint inhibition has not yet...
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Dr. Lewis Cantley Honored with Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research Dr. Lewis Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and...
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Dr. Bishoy Faltas Works to Develop More Effective Therapies for Bladder Cancer Each year, 80,000 people in the United States are newly diagnosed with bladder cancer, and more than 17,000 lose their lives due to the disease. It ranks as the fourth...
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Weill Cornell Medicine Team Receives NIH Grant to Study Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes Weill Cornell Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for COVID-19...
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Researchers Disable Cloaking Mechanism that Hides Tumors from the Immune System after Radiation Therapy Irradiated breast cancer cells release DNA (here marked in red) from mitochondria (here marked in green), setting off an alarm for the immune...
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We are pleased to introduce our newest EIPM Member Pinkal Desai, M.D. Dr. Desai is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the WCM Hematology and Medical Oncology Department and is the Charles, Lillian, and Betty Neuwirth Clinical Scholar in...
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The EIPM’s second quarter 2020 external newsletter, sent to people who signed up on our website to receive it, was distributed on July 6, 2020. We hope you enjoy learning more about our important work. July 2020, Dear Friends of the...
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This article originally appeared on the Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom website June 22, 2020. “Mini Brain” Models Show Promise as a Way to Study Incurable Glioblastoma Brain Tumors and Test Treatments A new technique that involves...
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The following article first appeared in the WCM Newsroom on May 29, 2020. Enzalutamide Prolongs Lives of Patients with Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer 3D illustration of prostate cancer cells. Image credit: Shutterstock A drug...
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The following essay by EIPM Member Allyson Ocean, M.D. first appeared in Medium. Oncologists Are Struggling to Treat Cancer Patients Amid the Pandemic A diagnosis of cancer is one of the most frightening things a patient could ever receive ...
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The following article first appeared on the Macauley Honors College website. Macaulay Honors College Students to Assist With COVID-19 Effort STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS Interns in the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell...
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