NYC MD-PHD @nycmdphd
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Colon cancer is on the rise around the world. This new report concludes that early-life exposure to gut bacteria that produces colibactin, which is mutagenic, may be contributing nature.com/articles/s4158…
Today #NIH is terminating more than $250 million in funding—including more than 400 grants—to Columbia University following directives from the Trump Administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The cancellations are due to Columbia University’s continued inaction…
News of the first NIH grant cuts at Columbia medical center have come in. Center grants (including of the diabetes center where I am), training grants for PhD students. PhD students are certainly not the reason for federal budget woes, they are among the most altruistically…
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. go.nature.com/3DhcYGb
📷 #preprint alert! Excited to share a #biobank of patient-derived #appendix cancer models, with novel insights into mechanisms and drug targeting of #peritoneal #carcinomatosis. Led by our 1st PhD student @wgsmahmoud @WeillCornellGS @HHMINEWS biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Excited for our keynote speaker @KarunaGaneshLab to discuss her lab’s work on understanding plasticity in CRC metastasis at our symposium November 13th! tinyurl.com/allnycsymposium
Excited for our keynote speaker @KarunaGaneshLab to discuss her lab’s work on understanding plasticity in CRC metastasis at our symposium November 13th! tinyurl.com/allnycsymposium
It was great to help restart the @nycmdphd annual conference for the first time since the start of Covid! Dr. Zev Williams of @ColumbiaOBGYN provided a great keynote speech "From Nanopores to Test Tube Babies" plus career advice for young MSTP trainees
It was great to help restart the @nycmdphd annual conference for the first time since the start of Covid! Dr. Zev Williams of @ColumbiaOBGYN provided a great keynote speech "From Nanopores to Test Tube Babies" plus career advice for young MSTP trainees
Check out some of the work that Dr. Williams presented here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36070716/
From Dr. Zev Williams: It was wonderful meeting so many of you yesterday and learning about the terrific work you are doing. Please reach out with any questions or to learn more about research opportunities in our lab. The IVF lab video is linked here: youtu.be/fXpRR5oqW6A
Thanks to everyone who attended the 2022 NYC-wide MD-PhD Symposium! We enjoyed a Keynote by Dr. Zev Williams, a student poster session, and a PSTP panel!

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