Nicky Blobel, who worked with Dr. Agata Smogorzewska at the Rockefeller University, defended his thesis, "Endogenous Sources of DNA Damage that Drive Human Disease" on December 2. Congratulations, Nicky!
Tri-I staff, Drs. Catharine Boothroyd and Eileen Torres, were accompanied by current students, Joshua Lopez-Scarim and Alicia Whye at the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This conference has been the go-to conference for historically excluded communities in STEM.
Preethi Periyakoil, who worked with Dr. Christina Leslie at Sloan Kettering, defended her thesis, "Deep topic modeling deconvolves ell states from spatial transcriptomic profiles of the rheumatoid arthritis synovium" on September 20. Congratulations, Preethi!
Abigail Janke, who worked with Dr. Gaby Maimon at The Rockefeller University, defended her thesis on "A neuronal circuit motif for leaky vector integration" on September 9. Congratulations, Abby!
Joe Pelt, a fourth year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as one of nine graduate students receiving the 2024 ASH Graduate Hematology Award (AHGA). This award aims to encourage graduate students in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology.
Alfred Chin, fifth year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has received an F30 Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Mr. Chin is currently working in the Alushin Lab at The Rockefeller University toward his PhD.
I arrived at the Tri-Institutional Campus in September 1972 to pursue post-doctoral training in biophysics with Alexander Mauro at The Rockefeller University. I was recruited to Cornell University Medical College, now Weill Cornell Medicine, in 1973, where I embarked on my independent research career in membrane biophysics.
