Dr. Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Neel, a member of the Tri-I MD-PhD graduating class of 1983, is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University Langone Medical Center, New York City.
Benjamin Jackson, a fifth year student in the Tri-I MD-PhD Program, has been awarded an F30 research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This award will support Mr.
Farid Aboharb, a current M.D.-Ph.D. student, took a year away from Tri-I to take part in a collaborative new M.D.-M.Eng. program between WCM and Cornell Engineering. Farid will be the first student to earn his Master's of Engineering as part of the program this May before returning to WCM to complete his M.D.
