MEETINGS

Agenda

Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Introduction

Laura Alonso, MD; Chief, Division of Endocrinology; Director, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Councilor

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology; Director, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University

“Identifying Metabolic Dependencies in Pancreatic Cancer”

Robert Schwabe, MD

Professor of Medicine and Director of the Digestive and Liver Disease Research Center, Columbia University

“Hepatic stellate cells in health and disease – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

Talia Swartz, MD, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for MD/PhD Education, Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Metabolic and Immune Dynamics in HIV-1 Infection: Lessons from Lymphoid Tissue Transcriptomics”

Break

Conor Liston, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medicine

“Probing and rescuing dysfunctional brain circuits in depression”

Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Robert and Renée Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Selective autophagy: fighting aging one protein at a time”

Walk to Anne Evans Estabrook Lecture Hall A-250

Emily Finkelstein, MD

Art Historian and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

“Lunch Keynote: Connecting Art & Medicine”

Walk back to Belfer for box lunches

Introduction to the Jonathan Epstein Scholars Program

O’Jay Stewart

MD/PhD student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai

“Monoallelic expression can govern penetrance of inborn errors of immunity”

Matt Engel

MD/PhD student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Intranasal LR3-IGF-1 Therapy in 5XFAD Mice: Differential Impact on Amyloid Plaques and Cognition”

Dalton Banh

MD/PhD student, Tri-I program, Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University

“Immune recognition of structured phage RNA by bacterial cGAS”

Patricia Ho

MD/PhD student, Columbia University

“The CD58:CD2 axis – a critical regulator of cancer immunity”

Michael Cross

MD/PhD student, New York University

“A dietary switch promotes sensory neuron-dependent cancer-associated cachexia”

Jonathan Epstein Scholars Program Awards

Break

Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award:
Hasina Outtz Reed, MD PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

“Targeting the Lymphatic Vasculature in Lung Health and Disease”

Matt Greenblatt, MD PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

“A new stem cell basis for spine metastases”

Laura Pasqualucci, MD

Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University

“Hijacking Super-Enhancer Networks in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma”

Business Meeting (ICC Members Only)

Cocktail Reception

University Club – Breakfast Room, 7th floor
1 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019

Dinner

University Club  – Council Room, 7th floor
1 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019 

Dinner speaker: Tim Stearns PhD

Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies and Vice President of Education at the Rockefeller University

“A timely update on the interaction between science, government, and national security”

Adjourn