Center on the Physics of Cancer Metabolism         A fantastic, productive  site visit this week–approximately 60 faculty and trainees from MD Anderson, & Weill Cornell–sharing presentations and posters on progress w/the NCI. Due to the COVID-19 crisis most outside visitors including NCI staff as well as most of our Advisory Board attended […]

Collaboration Employs New Strategies to Study the Spread of Cancer click here to view video

Article in Science by Alexandra McGregor and Peter DelNero now available online

    2 Pilot Projects  for Year 2 have been awarded and started September 15, 2017     Mechanisms of Copper Depletion in TNBC Metastasis- From Bedside to the Bench Project Investigators: Vivek Mittal, Claudia Fischbach Additional Collaborators: Linda Vahdat (Weill Cornell Medicine) Noah Elias Dephoure (Weill Cornell Medicine)   Single-Cell Deep-Profiling of Signaling and […]

Collaborators use new strategies to study cancer’s spread If cancer didn’t metastasize, or spread, it would be easy to cure, says Lewis Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. “We could merely cut it out, and it would not return,” he says. “We would be done.” […]

    2 Pilot Projects have been awarded to start January 1, 2017   Novel Affinity Reagents for Analysis of Tumor Microvesicles and Their Metabolically Regulated Glycome Matt DeLisa and Matt Paszek, Cornell University    Revealing Mechanisms of Microvesicle Biogenesis in Breast Cancer via in situ Microscopy Lara A. Estroff; Cornell University    

Inaugural retreat of our Center brought together more than 50 scientists from Ithaca, New York, San Francisco, and Houston to discuss science across all participating institutions. A special thanks goes to all poster presenters. The posters that were selected by the jury for this year’s $250 poster award were: Mammary Window Imaging of Breast Carcinoma Cell […]

Peter DelNero, Ph.D. student (BME), has been selected for a 2017 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education. It will be presented at the association’s annual meeting later this month.  Peter DelNero is a PhD […]

A team of PSOC members participated in this year’s Walkathon, an annual fundraiser for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes in Ithaca. They braved the elements and were able to raise over $3,000 to help support the local cancer community.