In 2013, scientists at MIT and at UC Berkeley optimized a way to use bacterial gene sequences to cut and change DNA at precise locations. The genome-editing system, called CRISPR, is cheaper and simpler than previous methods, and it has led to breakthroughs in diagnostics and the creation of more accurate disease models.
We especially thank our own veterans, sixth year MD-PhD student, Corporal Jim G. Castellanos, United States Marine Corps, and fifth year MD-PhD student, Specialist Harry “Jake” Reed, United States Army.
Professor Dan Landau of Weill Cornell Medical College and Professor Jeremy Rock of The Rockefeller University, along with former Tri-I MD-PhD student Dr.
Professor David Allis of The Rockefeller University was named as a recipient of a 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award alongside Professor Michael Grunstein of UCLA.
Two current Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Students have been selected as members of the Weill Cornell Medical College Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Andrew Gregg and Maria Sacta, both currently completing their final clinical training in the Program, were chosen to be among the 17 students comprising the WCMC AΩA 2019 class. Both students defended their PhD theses in 2017 and will be graduating from the MD-PhD program this academic year.
Ross Levine, MD, the Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named as the 2018 William Dameshek Prize winner by The American Society of Hematology. The William Dameshek Prize is awarded to an early- or mid-career hematologist who has made a recent outstanding contribution to the field of hematology.
The National Academy of Medicine has named a Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program alumnus, Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc, and a current Tri-Institutional faculty member, Sohail Tavazoie, MD, PhD, as 2018-2019 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine.
MD-PhD Student Gustav Cederquist will defend his thesis Dissecting the Complex Landscape of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells on Wednesday, July 18th in the Zuckerman Auditorium (on the first floor of the Zuckerman Research Center) at 10am.Gustav conducted his research in the lab of Dr. Lorenz Studer of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Kara Maxwell, Tri-Institutional MD PhD graduating class of 2007, has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Department of Medicine and Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maxwell is a board certified Medical Oncologist who performs clinical services in the area of Cancer Risk Evaluation. Her research interests are in cancer genetics and in the translation of genetic data into improved management of individuals with cancer.
Kimberly Rickman, MD-PhD student, will defend her thesis Molecular Characterization of Novel Mutations in Fanconi Anemia Patients, on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 3:30pm in the Carson Family Auditorium on The Rockefeller University Campus. There will be a tea preceeding the lecture in the same location.Kimberly is doing her research in Professor Agata Smogorzewska's lab at Rockefeller University.
