2016-2017 Faculty Honors

New Faculty Appointments

(2016-2017)

• Josef Anrather - Associate Professor of Neuroscience
• J. Emilio Carrillo - Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
• Chitra Dahia - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
• Iliyan Iliev - Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
• James Lo- Assistant Professor Pharmacology
• Jihye Paik - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
• Kristen Pleil - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
• Charles Rudin - Professor of Pharmacology
• Monika Safford - Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
• Manu Sharma- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
• Shahrad Taheri - Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Career Development Awards and Individual Honors

2016-2017

• Dr. Jessica Ancker (HPR) - elected a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. The college comprises elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics.
• Dr. James Lo (PHARM) - received a Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in Cardiovascular Disease award. The program supports innovative scientific research that will advance knowledge in the field of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Lo will be funded up to $130,000 over a two-year period.
• Dr. Wen Shen (CDB) - recipient of the the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Career Scientist Award
  Dr. Dan Landau (PBSB) - recipient of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation Scholar Award 
• Dr. Christopher Mason (PBSB) - received a Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research for his proposal, "Single-Cell Resolution of Leukemia's Epigenetic Evolution During Therapy."
• Dr. Iliyan Iliev (IMP) - recipient of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Breakthrough Award
• Drs. Dan Landau (PSBS) and James Lo (PHARM) -  recipients of the American Society for Clinical Investigation Council Young Physician-Scientist Award
• Dr. Constantino Iadecola (NEURO) - invited to join the Hotchkiss Brain Institute's Expert Advisory Committee
• Dr. Ekta Khurana (PBSB) - invited to join the journal Current Protocols in Bioinformatics' Editorial Board 
• Drs Scott Blanchard (PBSB) and John Moore (IMP) - recipients of The Siegel Family Award for Outstanding Medical Research 
• Dr. Jessica Ancker (HPR) -  invited to talk on "Communicating Risk in the Context of Precision Medicine: The Challenge of Low Health Literacy" at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Health Literacy Roundtable event
• Dr. Jonathan Victor (NEURO/PBSB) -  invited to join two National Institutes of Health study sections in 2016. In January, Dr. Victor joined the Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience study section, and in March he joined the Integrative, Functional and Cognitive Neuroscience study section
• Dr. Marcin Imielinski (PBSB) - recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation Council Young Physician-Scientist Award
• Dr. Olga Boudker (PBSB/BSB) - recepient of the Biophysical Society's Michael and Kate Bárány Award for Young Investigators
• Dr. Dan Landau (PBSB) - received the 2016 Sidney Kimmel Foundation Scholar Award
• Dr. Gregory Sonnenberg (IMP) - selected as one of the 2016 Searle Scholars
• Dr. Marco Seandel (CDB) - reciptient of the 2016 Irma T. Hirschl/ Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Award

WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE FACULTY NAMED 'MOST INFLUENTIAL' RESEARCHERS
Four professors from Weill Cornell Medicine have been named to a list of the most influential scientific minds of 2015. The list — based on statistics maintained by Thomson Reuters — reflects the most prolific researchers in their respective fields of science.

The investigators named to the prestigious list were considered by the editors to be "a special subset of 'hot' researchers whose very recent work has won distinction in the form of citations… they are scientists who have won acclaim and approval within a key population: their peers."

The Weill Cornell Medicine professors on the list are:

• Dr. Lewis Cantley
• Dr. David Calfee
• Dr. BJ Casey
• Dr. Mark Rubin
• Dr. Christopher Barbieri (CDB) - appointed to the American Urological Association Research Council's Research Grants and Investigator Support Committee for a two-year term.
• Dr. Lewis C. Cantley (CDB/BSB) - awarded the 2016 Wolf Prize in Medicine from the Wolf Foundation for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding diabetes and cancer.