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May 20, 2025
NEW YORK, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) today announced the launch of the Lupus Nexus Foundational Analyses, a major scientific initiative aimed at creating one of the most comprehensive and accessible lupus research datasets ever assembled. This effort will generate numerous molecular datasets using biospecimens collected through the Lupus Landmark Study, a key component of the Lupus Nexus. These molecular datasets, integrated with robust clinical data,...
Co-corresponding author Octavio Ramilo, MD, St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases chair and co-first author M. Asunción Mejías, MD, PhD, St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.
May 19, 2025
Newswise — Infants hospitalized with severe COVID-19 have significantly different immune responses than adults or older children. The finding comes from scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and Yale University. The researchers established the unique features of hospitalized infants’ immune cells during mild, moderate and severe COVID-19. The...
David Lyden ISEV 2025 Special Achievement Award
May 8, 2025
We are proud to announce that Dr. David C. Lyden, a member of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, has received the prestigious Special Achievement Award from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV). This distinguished honor, voted on by over 2,000 ISEV members, recognizes Dr. Lyden’s groundbreaking contributions to the field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research.
Dr. M. Virginia Pascual
April 24, 2025
Provost Kavita Bala and professors Anurag Agrawal and Dr. M. Virginia Pascual have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on April 23.
Lyden Lucotti
February 12, 2025
Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously thought—according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and University of California San Diego Health. Clots are the second-leading cause of death among cancer patients with advanced disease or aggressive tumors.
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December 10, 2024
Specially packaged DNA secreted by tumor cells can trigger an immune response that inhibits the metastatic spread of the tumor to the liver, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Korea’s Yonsei University. The discovery improves the scientific understanding of cancer progression and anticancer immunity, and could yield new clinical tools for assessing and reducing metastasis risk.
November 18, 2024
The highlight of this annual celebration is the presenting of the research grants to the three cancer institutions supported in the tristate area. Over the past thirty-six years, the Foundation has awarded 115 cancer research grants to various institutions in the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware in the amount of $1,320,000.
Healthy monocytes express either interferon-sensitive proteins, such as the interferon-inducible protein MxA (red, I) or IL-1b (green, II). SLE blood monocytes (right) co-express both proteins (yellow, III). This abnormal co-expression may explain why treatments targeting only interferons may be inadequate in some patients with lupus. Credit: Dr. Simone Caielli
October 18, 2024
Immune cells called monocytes produce a key inflammatory protein called interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) through an unconventional pathway in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly referred to as lupus, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Image illustrating four prognostic scenarios that may be found in liver biopsies when pancreatic cancer is diagnosed before metastasis. (Left to right) Orange: neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), suggesting liver metastasis in less than 6 months. Red: NETs and T cells, suggesting liver metastasis in greater than 6 months. Green: T cells and fatty liver suggesting metastasis to a different organ. Blue: Normal liver with fatty liver indicating no-evidence of future metastasis. Credit: Vanessa Dudley
June 28, 2024
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine with an international team have used liver biopsies to identify cellular and molecular markers that can potentially be used to predict whether and when pancreatic cancer will spread to an individual’s liver or elsewhere, such as the lung.
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June 28, 2024
Short-term space travel causes many of the same molecular and physiologic changes as long-term space missions, but most reverse within months of returning to Earth. Yet, those changes that are longer-lasting and distinct between crew members reveal new targets for aerospace medicine and can guide new missions, according to the results of a massive international research endeavor by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, SpaceX, and other organizations.

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