February 18, 2022
Dr. Ayana Morales
The WDOM congratulates Dr. Ayana Morales, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, WDOM on being selected as a recipient of the 2022 Pilot Grant Award of the Mastercard Diversity-Mentorship Collaborative at Weill Cornell Medicine. This one-time grant, which begins January 1, 2022 and runs through December 31, 2022, will support Dr. Morales’s project focused on understanding the role of an oncoprotein, Wilms' Tumor 1, in HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma. Dr. Morales will use patient samples, as well as 2D and 3D disease models, as it may serve as a biomarker and a potential target of immunotherapy.