Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross, MD, PhD, member of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD graduating class of 1982, is a co-senior author on a recent Nature Genetics paper identifying a genetic cause for a "mosaic" disorder. This heretofore poorly understood disorder causes abnormalities in the skin, brain, and beyond.
As we announced last year, the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program founded a "House System." This MD-PhD student-led initiative has the goal of fostering mentorship and community within and across the Program.
A total of ten Gateways alumni presented their research at ABRCMS. Held from November 13th through the 16th in Anaheim, California, the conference saw attendance of more than 5,000 undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers.
In a study published in Nature on October 23, Conor Liston, MD, PhD, and his collaborators present new results, using mouse models, on the effects of depleted gut microbiota on the brain.
Dr. Randy Longman, MD, PhD, (Tri-I MD-PhD graduating class of 2007) has been named as the new Director of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammator Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Preethi Periyakoil, Tri-I MD-PhD incoming class of 2019, has been named one of two recipients of the Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize from CalTech, given to alumni of that institution, from which institution she earned her BS in Computer Science in 2018.Ms. Periyakoil received the Chang Prize for her proposed project “University Support Text Line" along side one other honoree.
Dr. Ronald Koenig, Tri-Instutional MD-PhD graduating class 1978, has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education from Michigan Medicine, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1988 and the director of their MSTP since 1995.
Two current Tri-Institutional MD-PhD students and one alumnus of the Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program are among the Weill Cornell Medicine students selected for membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Class of 2020.
Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD, (Tri-Institutional MD-PhD graduating class of 1986), has been named as the Dean of Graduate Education at Harvard Medical School. Her post begins today, August 1, 2019.Dr. Segal, who has led a research lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center since 1998, will assume her new post while continuing her post as professor of neurobiology at HMS and leading the work of her lab.