Brain Tumor Stem Cells / Photo Credit: Nadia Dahmane, PhD

The recent announcement that Dr. Michael Kaplitt has been awarded a three-year, $9 million grant to study Parkinson’s disease is the latest in a series of funding awards that are fueling innovation at Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery. Dr. Kaplitt’s grant, from the Aligning Sciences Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, will put him at the helm of an ambitious and innovative...

Dr. Michael Kaplitt

Dr. Michael Kaplitt, a professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and a longtime leader in developing cutting-edge surgical therapies for movement disorders, leads a team that has been awarded a three-year, $8.9 million grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative.

The grant will fund an ambitious and innovative multi-institutional collaborative effort to study how abnormal protein aggregates may spread from the gut to the brain to drive the...

World Neurosurgery Cover on Covid at WCM

It would be impossible to overstate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which shattered norms and upended lives around the globe. It certainly created shock waves within neurosurgical departments, perhaps nowhere more than here in New York City, which was struck early and hard by the first surge of cases in March and April 2020.

The story of that first surge, and its devastating fallout, is chronicled in our April 2021 cover package in the journal World Neuro­surgery. In...