MEETINGS
228th Meeting, New York, NY
April 4, 2025
Agenda
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome and Introduction
Laura Alonso, MD; Chief, Division of Endocrinology; Director, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Councilor
8:40 am
Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology; Director, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University
“Identifying Metabolic Dependencies in Pancreatic Cancer”
9:05 am
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”
9:30 am
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”
9:55 AM
Break
10:10 am
Conor Liston, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medicine
“Probing and rescuing dysfunctional brain circuits in depression”
10:35 am
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”
11:00 am
Walk to Anne Evans Estabrook Lecture Hall A-250
11:15 am
Emily Finkelstein, MD
Art Historian and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
“Lunch Keynote: Connecting Art & Medicine”
12:15 pm
Walk back to Belfer for box lunches
1:00 pm
Introduction to the Jonathan Epstein Scholars Program
1:05 pm
O’Jay Stewart
MD/PhD student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
“Monoallelic expression can govern penetrance of inborn errors of immunity”
1:20 pm
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”
1:35 pm
Dalton Banh
MD/PhD student, Tri-I program, Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University
“Immune recognition of structured phage RNA by bacterial cGAS”
1:50 pm
Patricia Ho
MD/PhD student, Columbia University
“The CD58:CD2 axis – a critical regulator of cancer immunity”
2:05 pm
Michael Cross
MD/PhD student, New York University
“A dietary switch promotes sensory neuron-dependent cancer-associated cachexia”
2:20 pm
Jonathan Epstein Scholars Program Awards
2:25 pm
Break
2:40 pm
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”
3:05 pm
Matt Greenblatt, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
“A new stem cell basis for spine metastases”
3:30 pm
Laura Pasqualucci, MD
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University
“Hijacking Super-Enhancer Networks in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma”
3:55 pm
Business Meeting (ICC Members Only)
6:00 pm
Cocktail Reception
University Club – Breakfast Room, 7th floor
1 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
7:00 pm
Dinner
University Club – Council Room, 7th floor
1 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
8:00 pm
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”