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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the latest UroToday Beyond the Abstract paper, "Evaluating Surrogates for Overall Survival in the Adjuvant Treatment of #BladderCancer with #Chemotherapy," by our Clinical Director Dr. Cora N. Sternberg! #precisionmedicine

www.urotoday.com/recent-abstr...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 3d

We hope you can join us on October 30th!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 4d

Please join us in congratulating our Clinical Director Dr. Cora N. Sternberg on being named to Research.com's 2025 list of the Top 1000 Female Scientists!

She's ranked #305 in the U.S., and #516 in the world!

research.com/careers/worl...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 7d

“Our study [in Cancer Discovery] suggests a new therapeutic approach to block metastasis before it starts, and help patients overcome triple negative breast cancer,” said Dr. Vivek Mittal (@MittalLab) from the Meyer Cancer Center and there EIPM.

news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/10...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 7d

We hope you can join us two weeks from today!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 14d

We hope you enjoy this new article from The Scientist "How Circulating Tumor Cells Can Help Diagnose Cancer Early," with our colleague Dr. Carolina Reduzzi.

www.the-scientist.com/how-circulat...

How Circulating Tumor Cells Can Help Diagnose Cancer Early

Circulating tumor cells allow researchers to detect cancer early, provide an accurate prognosis, monitor progression, and inform personalized medicine.

www.the-scientist.com

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 15d

Should people with triple-negative #breastcancer be offered hormonal therapy to reduce the risk of recurrence?

Learn what EIPM Member Dr. Lisa Newman has discovered via her new @BreastCancer podcast:

www.breastcancer.org/podcast/tnbc...

Podcast: TNBC May Be Hormone Receptor-Positive if It Recurs

If triple-negative breast cancer comes back, the recurrence may be hormone receptor-positive. Can hormonal therapy help reduce recurrence risk?

www.breastcancer.org

wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 18d

This Thursday at 1 pm our Director of Ex Vivo Models, Dr. Ben Hopkins (@Degreesofhealth), will present "Placing #Purines in #PrecisionMedicine, From N=1 to a Metabolic Reliance in #KRAS-Mutant Tumors" in Belfer #1401 and via Zoom (DM for info).

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks to our Elemento Lab colleague Valerie Gallegos for presenting an engaging Precision Medicine Journal Club talk yesterday about the Science Direct paper, "Cancer-associated Fibroblast-derived Fibulin-5 Promotes Radioresistance in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer."

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · 22d

Rescheduled to today at 3 pm, we hope you can join us in person or via Zoom!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Sep 10

A new study in Cell Reports by EIPM researchers discovered that adversity in the womb configured a small percentage of brain cells to be overly active when faced with a threatening situation, creating a vulnerability to anxiety.

Learn more: news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/09...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Sep 9

Please join us in congratulating internationally recognized medical oncologist Dr. Allyson J. Ocean on being named Director of the Early Onset Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine effective August 1st!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations to our EIPM colleague Dr. Joseph Scarpa from @WCMAnesthesia on his new NIA/AFAR grant to study “The Impact of Biological Age on Surgical Outcomes," with EIPM's Dr. Jan Krumsiek!

Learn more: anesthesiology.weill.cornell.edu/news/dr-jose...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 28

"For artificial intelligence to truly transform patient care, it must first be held to the same standard of evidence as the medicines it promises to enhance," a STAT News opinion by EIPM Director Olivier Elemento, Clinical Dir. Cora N. Sternberg and Dr. Sean Khozin.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/m...

Why Silicon Valley should demand clinical trials for its medical AI

For AI tools making high-stakes clinical decisions, well-designed, prospective RCTs must be the gold standard.

www.statnews.com

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 23

“We are making advancements in pancreatic cancer over the last five to ten years; however, the advancements have come out slowly,” Dr. Allyson Ocean, a member of the EIPM.

Learn more: www.survivornet.com/articles/bac...

‘Bachelorette’ Star Hannah Brown, 30, & Pancreatic Cancer Survivor Says She and Adam Woolard Are on the Final ‘Countdown’ to Wedding Day

The Bachelorette star Hannah Brown, 30, is counting down the days to her big wedding. The milestone moment comes a few years removed from battling pancreatic cancer.

www.survivornet.com

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 23

We hope you can join us!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great new paper in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations by our Clinical Director Dr. Cora N. Sternberg: "Evaluating surrogates for overall survival in the adjuvant treatment of bladder cancer with chemotherapy."

Check it out:
www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S107...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Redefining druggable targets with artificial intelligence. We highlight the failure of current target taxonomies and the need for benchmarking datasets, and re-evaluate clinical validation for novel AI-driven modalities." Nature Biotechnology commentary.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Terrific student presentations yesterday by the 2025 MCC+EIPM Summer Internship Program participants!

We thank all of the participating students, as well as our mentors and staff who contributed so generously of their time to make this another wonderful summer program!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 15

We hope you can join us!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Sboner from the EIPM and the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department on his new guest editorial in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, "Informatics Powering Data to Shape the Future of Molecular Pathology."

www.jmdjournal.org/article/S152...

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 7

So great to host Daniela Sia, Ph.D., from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, today for her talk, "Discovery of Novel Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Cholangiocarcinoma," shown here with our EIPM colleagues, Drs. Benjamin Hopkins (left) and Andrea Sboner!

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Don't miss the latest OncoDaily blog post by EIPM Director Olivier Elemento, PhD, "AI-Designed Genome Editors Are Here," on a stunning new paper in Nature that used a generative AI approach to design a novel protein from the ground up!

oncodaily.com/science/ai-d...

Olivier Elemento: AI-Designed Genome Editors Are Here - OncoDaily

Olivier Elemento: AI-Designed Genome Editors Are Here / AI genome editor, AI-designed CRISPR, cancer, CRISPR innovation, CRISPR-SpCas9, Olivier Elemento,

oncodaily.com

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Jul 30

Great new paper identified that signaling through the immune checkpoint programmed death receptor 1 strongly impacts the early specification of CD8+ TRM cells in the skin, by our EIPM Drs. Niroshana Anandasabapathy, Akanksha Verma, and Director Olivier Elemento!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PD-1 is requisite for skin TRM cell formation and specification by TGFβ - Nature Immunology

Anandasabapathy and colleagues show that the inhibitory receptor PD-1 impacts the specification of tissue-resident memory T cells in the skin.

www.nature.com

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wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross on her new $1.1 million grant from the Rare Birds Foundation to study a neurodevelopmental disorder called #MEF2C Haploinsufficiency syndrome (#MCHS).

Learn more: eipm.weill.cornell.edu/news/11-mill...

$1.1 Million Grant Funds Research on Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder | Englander Institute for Precision Medicine

A $1.1 million grant from the parent-caregiver-led Rare Birds Foundation to Weill Cornell Medicine is supporting the launch of a natural history study for a rare neurodevelopmental disorder that cause...

eipm.weill.cornell.edu

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