Grants and Publications

Dr. Souweidane Contributes to Germ Cell Tumor Consensus Statement

November 10, 2021

In an international collaboration to describe effective treatment strategies for intracranial germ cell tumors, Dr. Mark Souweidane and two dozen investigators from Europe and North America have published a new consensus statement to guide decision making. The paper, “Intracranial germ cell tumors in Adolescents and Young Adults: European and North American consensus review, current management and future development,” was published in the November 1, 2021, issue of the journal Neuro-...

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

$9M Grant for Parkinson’s Disease Tops List of Research Funding

November 2, 2021

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. Kaplitt Awarded $9M Grant to Study Gut-Brain Connection in Parkinson’s

October 27, 2021

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...