“This technology gives us new power to answer important questions about how #cancers evolve, from pre-cancerous #neoplastic outgrowths to transformation into malignancy and resistance,” Dr. Anna Nam @WCMCPathology and the EIPM! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/10...

We hope you enjoy our latest in-depth staff interview, "Uncovering the Shape-Shifting Secrets of Prostate Cancer: An Interview with Dr. Nicholas Brady," and learn about his unconventional career path, and passion for teaching & mentorship! pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/uncover...

Just announced! The next Scientific Research Symposium will be hosted by our Chair Dr. Massimo Loda, with AICF, and amazing speakers from MIT Koch Institute, Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy and the University of Torino! Register: aicf-wcm_symposium2025.eventbrite.com

Please join us in congratulating our departmental colleague Dr. Anna S. Nam (@AnnaEnim), an emerging leader of single-cell genomics of hematopoietic neoplasms, on being appointed the Gellert Family/John P. Leonard, M.D. Research Scholar in Hematology and Medical Oncology!

We hope you can join us Monday at noon!

"My molecular work bridges how genes and infections cause cancer, and my research is still very microscope oriented." We hope you enjoy our new profile interview with our colleague Dr. Ethel Cesarman! pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/convers...

Some of our amazing colleagues gathered afterwork on Friday to celebrate Women in Medicine month!

We hope you can join us this morning!

Drs. Paul Barone, Siarhei Dzedzik, Sanjay Patel and colleagues today published "Wild-type p53 overexpression in NPM1-mutated acute myeloid #leukemia: potential implications for disease biology and therapy response," in Haematologica! Learn more: haematologica.org/article/view...

Congratulations to our Resident Dr. Burcu Karadal-Ferrena (left) on presenting "Clinicopathological and molecular features of glycogen-rich breast carcinomas," at the 37th European Congress of Pathology in Vienna last week! Co-authors on the presentation Drs. Solomon, Lindeman, Hoda & Boyraz.

The Department celebrated the career of Dr. Jacob Rand (red tie) and welcomed incoming new faculty members this week. From left: Drs. Melissa Cushing, Laura Collins, Ryan des Jean, Mesut Toprak, Jacob Rand, Sapna Desai, Emily Storch, Maelle Saliba, Massimo Loda, and Tan Ince!

“AI will be a routine part of diagnostics and treatment planning—not replacing pathologists but making our work faster and more precise.” Learn more about Dr. Ken Ikemura's work as our Director of Clinical Informatics: pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/convers...

Our colleague Dr. Robert DeSimone M.D., Director, Transfusion Medicine, has a great new paper in The Journal of Pediatrics: "Temporal Trends in Red Blood Cell and Platelet Transfusion Thresholds for Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants," take a look and let us know what you think!

A fascinating new Clinics in Dermatology paper by our colleague Dr. Cynthia Magro (below) tells the story behind the rose spot eponym of typhoid fever, including its etymology, historic background, and clinical features. Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Emily Storch! She will serve as a general clinical pathologist at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, covering chemistry, hematology, microbiology, and point-of-care as well as covering the transfusion medicine service. Learn more at: weillcornell.org/emily-storch...

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Sapna Desai to our team! She will be our Chief of Autopsy Pathology wherein she will oversee the Autopsy Program that services WCM, NYP-Queens, NYP-Brooklyn Methodist, and NYP-Lower Manhattan. Learn more: weillcornell.org/sapna-desai-md

“This award feels like a milestone in the recognition of our work identifying new bone stem cells,” said our colleague Dr. Matthew Greenblatt on earning the prestigious Paul-Gallin Trailblazer Prize for Physician-Scientists from @FNIH_Org! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/08...

Check out our new interview, "A conversation with Dr. Annika Windon," and learn why she was was drawn to GI pathology, her thoughts on AI, her passion for mentoring, and how golfing at a young age later made her a better pathologist! pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/weight-...

Join us, we're hiring! Our department has immediate openings for an academic cytopathologist, academic gastrointestinal & liver pathologist, academic hematopathologist, and molecular pathologist! Learn more and apply today: pathology.weill.cornell.edu/.../career-o...

Please join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Anna Nam on being named a 2025 Pew-Stewart scholar! “I feel very grateful to be named among the Pew-Stewart Scholars,” said Dr. Nam, “It’s a tremendous honor.” pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/two-wei...

Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Sboner from the Weill Cornell Medicine's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department on his new guest editorial in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, "Informatics Powering Data to Shape the Future of Molecular Pathology." www.jmdjournal.org/article/S152...

Rest in peace Dr. Daniel R. Alonso, dean emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, died July 31. pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/dr-dani...

Don't miss our departmental Residency Program Virtual Open House on Monday, August 25th at 4 pm, open to 2026 Residency Applicants. Register today using the QR code!

Our team, in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, seeks an academically oriented board-certified/board eligible full-time General Surgical Pathologist with Breast Pathology expertise to join our growing team. Learn more and apply today! physiciancareers.nyp.org/job/queens/p...

Join us! The WCM Pathology dep't in NYC has an immediate opening for an Academic Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathologist for full-time appointment at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank. Learn more, including salary range, and apply today! pathology.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/car...

Dr. Cynthia Magro has an important LTE of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, "Melanoma and Matrimony: Retrospective Study of Demographics, Marital Status, and Clinical Features of Patients With Acral Melanoma at a Single Academic Center." Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ICYMI: "Giant cellulitis-like Sweet syndrome with myofasciitis: Multimodality imaging findings and streptococcal trigger," in Radiology Case Reports by our colleague Dr. Cynthia Magro is well worth the read! Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to our departmental colleagues, including Drs. Erika Hissong and Juan Miguel Mosquera, who identified distinct immunologic tumor microenvironments in colorectal cancer highlighted in a new Pathology--Research and Practice paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to our departmental colleagues, Drs. Francesca Khani, Mosquera, et al, on their new "Pathology--Research and Practice" paper "SPINK1 Immunohistochemistry: An Ancillary Tool to Diagnose Urothelial Carcinoma in situ and Urothelial Dysplasia." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to our colleagues on being recently elected to The Association for Molecular Pathology leadership positions: Dr. Andrea Sboner (left) was elected Informatics Program Committee Representative; and Dr. James Solomon was elected as the Solid Tumors Training and Education Committee Rep!

“Blood donation helps to lower the viscosity of the blood,” which can help prevent the formation of blood clots, heart attacks and stroke, according to Dr. Robert DeSimone, our Director of Transfusion Medicine! www.womansworld.com/wellness/hea...

Thrilled to introduce our 2025-2026 House Staff and Fellows!

Please join us in congratulating our colleagues, Executive Vice Chair Dr. Melissa Cushing & Director of Transfusion Medicine Dr. Robert A. DeSimone, on being named 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors!

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Zhen Zhao on her talk “Outcome-Based Data Analysis: Impact and Value of the Clinical Laboratory,” at the 2025 Annual Conference of Laboratory Medicine, Sichuan Medical Doctor's Association, on June 20th in Chengdu, China!

Congrats to our colleague Dr. Kenji Ikemura on his new award from the NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to study “Real-Time #AI-Powered Microscopic Analysis: A Platform for Laboratory Medicine and Beyond.” The award provides funding of $50,000 per year for two years.

Our Chair Massimo Loda, M.D. hosted the New York Prostate Club meeting yesterday at Weill Cornell Medicine, with participants from @Columbia, @MSKCancerCenter @CSHL, and our colleague Dr. Maria Diaz-Meco Conde presented.

Don't miss the Front Line Genomics interview with our colleague Dr. Anna S. Nam about the genetic and non-genetic drivers of cancer, and the benefits of using a single-cell multiomics approach to investigate these factors. frontlinegenomics.com/anna-nam/

New research in Nature Cancer by our colleague Dr. Jorge Moscat, with Dr. Maria T. Diaz-Meco, shows "Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (#PDAC) emerges from mutant KRAS-harboring but dormant low-grade pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN)." Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Thank you Dr. Syed Hoda (center image) for 33 years of service to our department and the field of pathology, best of luck in all future endeavors!

Congratulations to Dr. Juan Miguel Mosquera (image below) and colleagues on their new Research Square preprint, "Comparison of Whole Genome Sequencing with Clinical Targeted Panel Sequencing of Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Insights from Real-World Data." www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Filippo Pederzoli (center) for earning the Best Poster Award for “Tumor ecosystems are associated with traditional pathological features in prostate cancer,” at the 36th Pezcoller Symposium in Trento (Italy) last week! Photo credit to Daniele Panato.

Check out the new research in Nature Cancer by our colleague Dr. Jorge Moscat, with Dr. Maria T. Diaz-Meco, "Self-amplifying NRF2–EZH2 epigenetic loop converts KRAS-initiated progenitors to invasive pancreatic cancer." Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Dr. Nancy Du was poised to study how to prevent cancer from spreading to the bones of patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer when she received a stop-work order on her research grant from the Department of Defense in April. pathology.weill.cornell.edu/news/researc...

Please join us in congratulating to our colleague Dr. Jessica Tyler, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on receiving the David P. Hajjar, Ph.D. Distinguished Research Award from Dr. Jorge Moscat, our Vice Chair for the Division of Cell and Cancer Pathobiology!

Congrats to Dr. Melissa Cushing (image right), our Executive Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, on earning the Janet A. Mouradian, M.D. Mentoring Award at our annual dinner celebrating graduating Residents and Fellows of the 2024-2025 academic year! Shown with our colleague Dr. Nicole Panarelli M.D.

Please join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Syed Hoda (image right) on earning the M. Desmond Burke, M.D. Excellence in Teaching Award during our June 13th annual dinner for graduating Residents and Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year! Presenting the award is Resident Georgi Lukose, M.D.

Congratulations Dr. Theresa Scognamiglio, shown with our colleague Dr. Brian Robinson, on earning the Peter Paul Rosen, M.D. Clinical Service Award on June 13th during our annual dinner to celebrate the graduating Residents and Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year!

Our colleague Dr. Teresa Sanchez has earned the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association! The highly-competitive 5-year award recognizes investigators with a strong record of impactful contributions to cardiovascular science. news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/06...