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Two study rooms, adjacent to each other on the main floor, will be named the "Lorraine J Gudas, PhD Room" and the "Olaf Andersen, MD Room" in honor of two professors Dr. Shen holds in the highest regard. Here is a picture of Dr. Shen and Dr. Gudas in 2016 when he stopped by to visit Dr. Gudas.

Mildred Unti, a PhD student in the Jaffrey lab, received an F31 fellowship for her project titled, "Development of a chemogenetically controlled RNA aggregation system and its application in elucidating the role of RNA foci in repeat expansion disease."

Congratulations to Millie are in order!

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:

• https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/020520/yang-follows-the-science-where-it-takes-her
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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….

He received the award at the Weill Cornell Graduate School Convocation ceremony. Well deserved, Miklos!! Dr. Toth is the 5th person pictured from left to right.

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.

Her talk was titled: Combining Pharmacology and Genetic Approaches to Study and Treat Human Diseases.

Here is the link...https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-019-0231-8

Drs. Zippin, Buck, and Levin publish a groundbreaking study on how skin color is established.

To read the article, click here.

Dr. Jaffrey Co-Founds a New Biotech Company.

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Scientists from the Giovanni Lorenzino Medical Foundation met with Weill Cornell faculty. 

Pictured at lunch are: Lorraine Gudas, Emanuela Folco, David Hajjar, & Randi Silver. In the second picture are Roberto Levi, Guido Rasi, & Sergio Pecorelli. Dr. Rasi is the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency and he also gave a lecture titled: Role of Regulatory Agencies in the Development of Innovative Drugs.