News and Updates

Dr. Juliana Xu, former PhD student graduated from Dr. Gudas Lab......click here for more

The American Society for Clinical Investigation: https://the-asci.org/controllers/asci/AsciProfileController.php?pid=502940

Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05668-z

He succeeds Dr. David Scheinberg, who ably led the division and the PhD Program for 20 years.

Click here: https://pharmacology.weill.cornell.edu/postdoctoral-fellows/research-eve...

Seminar Talk Title:

“A Nanotechnologist’s View of Biomedicine”.

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/06/dr-sara-zaccara-honored-with...

The Rifkind family generously donated funds for the Arleen B Rifkind MD Professorship in Pharmacology. On March 22, 2022, the Pharmacology Dept. held a research seminar in honor of Dr. Arleen Rifkind,  a professor in the Pharmacology Dept. who passed away last year. Dr. Rifkind was an accomplished and beloved faculty member.  Dean Augustine Choi; Dr. Gudas; Amy,one of Arleen and Bob Rifkind's two daughters, Amy and Nina Rifkind; and Dr. Silvia Moore, a faculty member who worked with Dr....

We had a wonderful exchange of scientific findings, and enthusiastic participation by PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members.

Here are the results of the judging of the poster presentations and talks. Thank you all for making the retreat a success!

Fifth Year Student Talks:
Kyle Planck, First Place
Tom Rossetti, Second Place

Third Year Student Talks:
Mildred Unti...

The Center for Genomic Information Encoded by RNA Nucleotide Modifications is one of 12 NIH Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS), which supports multi-investigator and interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative approaches and technologies to expand our understanding of the information encoded in the human genome.  The Center for Genomic Information Encoded by RNA Nucleotide Modifications is based at Weill Cornell Medicine and led by Dr. Samie Jaffrey, and includes...

Drs. Buck, Levin, Meinke, and their colleagues, including two Pharmacology PhD students, Tom Rossetti and Jacob Ferreira, have a new publication just out in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters titled:   Discovery of TDI-10229: A Potent and Orally Bioavailable Inhibitor of Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase (sAC, ADCY10).  Very nice work!  Click here for more.

Cancer cells may evade chemotherapy by going dormant: CLICK HERE

An avid educator, Dan co-directs two innovative courses in drug discovery and development, “Drug Development from Molecule to Prescription” and the “Accelerating Bioventure Innovation” entrepreneurship course and training program. Prof. Heller and his laboratory are also active in outreach efforts, including at the Math, Engineering, and Science Academy, a public charter high school in Brooklyn...

This is an honor given to just a few individuals each year who have made major contributions both in research and in leadership in the pharmacology/chemical biology research community. For more information, click this link: https://www.aspet.org/aspet/meetings-awards/aspet-awards/aspet-fellows-(faspet)-program/2020-fellows

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 For more information, please click here   https://www.mskcc.org/news/msk-study-links-inflammation-alzheimer-s-disease-development

In February, 2020, she was named a J. of Biol. Chemistry/Tabor Award winner and was invited to speak at the ASBMB annual meeting. To read more, click here:

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For more, click here:  https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/06/researchers-find-that-chemical-marks-in-cellular-messages-trigger-their-disposal

Dr. Inturrisi was a friend and collaborator of the late Dr. Gavril Pasternak (MSKCC). This will be the ninth year of this world-renowned conference in Boston. The goal of the International Conference on Opioids is to provide the information and education needed to alleviate the risk of misuse or abuse and move the standard of care so that when necessary, opioids can be properly used to help those in pain.

The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and wihout concern for applications, often leads not only  to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technical breakthroughs….”  Many of our Pharmacology PhD students also went out to dinner with Dr. Dijkgraff after his talk.

To read the news in the Cornell Chronicle: Click here and Click here to read the article.

Congratulations to Jochen, Lonny, and their colleagues for the U54 grant titled: On-Demand  Pharmacological Contraception by Blocking  ADCY10.

For more information, click here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11583-1

Congratulations, Melanie! For more information, click:https://www.malecontraceptive.org/our-grantees/mci-fellows/

The Pharmacologist, ASPET's quarterly news magazine featured Dr. Gudas' ASPET-JPS Lecture at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society. lorraine_gudas_aspet.pdf

In a study published in Cell, Dr. Lee and Dr. Blenis and their colleagues showed that mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) promotes RNA splicing of fat-producing enzymes required to synthesize lipids for tumor growth.  For more information about Dr. Lee’s award, click here….

This is a very competitive and prestigious 8 year award which provides long-term support to accomplished researchers with superb records of research productivity who propose to conduct extraordinary research. The title of the award is:  New mechanisms and technologies for understanding post-transcriptional gene regulation in neurons.  Congratulations to you, Samie, and your research colleagues!!

Lisa Standke, a PhD student in Derek Tan’s lab,  wrote an article for Science Journal for Kids-the goal is to adapt current research articles into age-appropriate language for K-12 readers.

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1AMl7N-44

Ms. Lissett Checo, center, was honored by the medical college for 25 years of outstanding service in the Pharmacology Department administration! 

Dr. Lorraine Gudas is named as one of the top women "rock stars" of science at the annual meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology. 

Dr. Quintero's Research is Published!

Dr. Cynthia Quintero, PhD student mentored by Drs. Gudas and Luo, published her research on CARM1! Here is the link: click here.

Pathway to Stop Diabetes Visionary Award Recipient

Weill Cornell Faculty member, Dr. Samie R. Jaffrey has received the Pathway Visionary Award for his basic research project titled, "Rewiring Cellular Metabolic Networks in Diabetes." Dr. Jaffrey is developing a new type of gene therapy that will allow liver cells to "sense" metabolic abnormalities that occur in diabetes and then stimulate the production of proteins that would correct liver function.

Tom Rossetti won the first year poster prize in the 38th annual Vincent du Vigneaud Research Symposium from his work in Dr. Kristen Pleil’s lab.