Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna

The results of a five-year, multi-center clinical trial testing an innovative combination of an adenovirus and an immune checkpoint inhibitor against recurrent glioblastoma were published this week in Nature Medicine. The Phase 1/2 trial was conducted at multiple sites around the United States, including at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine, where Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna was the principal investigator. The trial, the first of its kind in humans, showed the...

Alexandra Giantini Larsen, MD

Alexandra Giantini Larsen, MD, a fourth-year resident in neurosurgery, has been awarded grants from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and NewYork-Presbyterian’s Health Justice in Action (HJA) Fund. Both grants are in support of Dr. Larsen’s efforts to increase diversity in neurosurgery by reaching out to high school students to encourage and motivate them toward careers in medicine....

In this sagittal section of the cerebellum, a common location for ATRT and medulloblastomas, the red indicates Purkinje neurons; nuclei are in blue.

Nadia Dahmane, PhD, associate professor of developmental biology in neurological surgery and a key investigator at the Weill Cornell Medicine Children’s Brain Tumor Project, has been awarded a pilot NIH grant for deciphering the three-dimensional (3D) genome of pediatric brain tumors. In collaboration with Dr. Katherine Pollard of the Gladstone Institute and Dr. Adam Resnick of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Dahmane will be...