WCM Community Town Hall
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Uris Auditorium, Meyer Building, 1300 York Ave
and Zoom
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend and participate in this WCM community event.
Hosted by:
Robert A. Harrington, MD
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean
Weill Cornell Medicine
Provost for Medical Affairs
Cornell University
Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents:
Orion Weiner, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & CVRI
University of California, San Francisco
Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents:
Sohail Tavazoie, M.D.-Ph.D.
Leon Hess Professor, Sr. Attending Physician
Rockefeller U. Hospital
This Industry Drop-In Session will feature:
ACADEMIA/HIGHER ED ADMINISTRATION
with
Alexis Tapanes-Castillo, Ph.D. ’04 (BCMB)
Associate Professor of Biology, Lab Director, & Science Safety Officer, College of Health Sciences at St. Thomas University
Zhuhao Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and Appel Institute, WCM
Part of the Work in Progress seminar series
The Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents:
Hemali P. Phatnani, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease - New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences - Columbia Irving Medical Center
The 2024 Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators Scientific Symposium celebrates and presents the scientific work of the awardees of the Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators.
The Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators is awarded annually. This prestigious honor recognizes the work of exceptional postdoctoral researchers from the Tri-Institutional community with a cash prize of $25,000 each.
The Tri-Institutional Breakout Award was established in 2015 by three winners of the 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Science — Lewis C. Cantley (Weill Cornell Medicine), Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan Kettering), and Cornelia Bargmann (Rockefeller University).
2024 Tri-I Breakout Prize Recipients:
WCM
Mohammad Arifuzzaman, PhD
David Artis Lab
Introduction by Hugh Hemmings, MD
Rockefeller University
Naama Aviram, PhD
Luciano Marraffini Lab
Introduction by Cori Bargmann, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Alessandra Brambati, PhD
Agnel Sfeir Lab
Introduction by Charles Sawyer, MD
The symposium will begin at 10:30am. A light breakfast will be available for event attendees starting at 10:00am. Please Join Us! In-person attendance is encouraged.
