This award is presented annually to members of the Department of Medicine below the rank of professor who perform on outstanding levels in the areas of clinical and/or basic biomedical research. The award has been generously supported by the Michael Wolk Foundation.
Initiated in 2002, this award is presented annually to fellows within the Department of Medicine who have presented outstanding research.
Dr. Peter Martin will be joining the faculty in the Division of Hematology/Oncology as Assistant Professor of Medicine on May 1, 2009. He will be seeing patients at the Center for Lymphoma and Myeloma and will be working with Drs. Eric Feldman, John Leonard, and other faculty in the area of hematological malignancies.
Adding potent research firepower and fresh physical perspectives to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University. It is one of 12 new research centers across the nation recently announced by the NCI. This grant is for $13 million over five years.
Physicians from The Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center will reveal the most-up-to-date information on colorectal cancer screening guidelines, risk factors, and risk reduction. In addition, Katie Couric will be on hand to answer questions regarding colorectal cancer and the importance of screening, early detection, and prevention.
The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to explore fundamental scientific questions, to apply the resulting knowledge at the bedside, and to bring insights from the clinical setting back to the laboratory for further exploration.
Benjamin Levy, M.D., of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, was selected as one of the 2009 recipients of the Young Investigators Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for his study, "Biomarker Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells in Prostate Cancer: Predicting Response to Taxanes: A Pilot Study".
Dr. David Nanus was awarded $100,000 from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to support his research program titled "PSMA-based Microfluidics-Capture of Circulating Prostate Cancer Cells: Study of Microtubule-driven Androgen Receptor Signaling, Gene Fusion, and Gene Expression Profiles with Correlation to Clinical Response to Taxane Therapy".
Drs. John Leonard and Ari Melnick of the Division of Hematology/Oncology were two of only 79 new members recently elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). They will be inducted into the organization at the Annual Joint Meeting of the ASCI in Chicago on April 24th-26th, 2009.
John Leonard, M.D., Associate Director of Clinical Research for the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, was awarded a one-year grant from Genentech to support the development of a Tissue Procurement Core, as part of the newly established Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College.
