Deadline: Monday, May 17 Prostate cancer is a major focus of research at the HICCC, reflecting the high burden of prostate cancer in our catchment area. With funding from the New York State Department of Health, the HICCC is pleased to offer support for innovative, hypothesis-developing research in prostate cancer. Proposals must address novel questions in prostate cancer research and support development of grant applications through external entities (e.g. National Cancer Institute, Department of Defense). Projects will be funded in the amount of $72,000 for one year. Budgets for the proposed must include categories that allow 30% of non-personnel costs to be spent through Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE). Please contact Dr. Emer Smyth (es3551@cumc.columbia.edu) to review budget requirements before submission. For more information, eligibility requirements and to apply, follow the link here: HICCC & NYS-DOH Prostate Cancer Research Pilot Program

"Human Genetics of Cardiometabolic Disease - A tool to uncover new biology, and enable enhanced clinical care" Amit V. Khera, MD Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Assistant Physician, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard   Dr. Khera, MD MSc, is a cardiologist, human geneticist, and population biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), group leader within the MGH Center for Genomic Medicine, Associate Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Merkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and went on to complete clinical training in Internal Medicine and cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MGH. He completed a Masters of Science at the Harvard School of Public Health and a postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Sekar Kathiresan in human genetics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard prior to accepting a faculty position. His research program (kheralab.org) uses genetic variation as a tool to uncover new biology and enable enhanced clinical care informed by inherited susceptibility. Dr. Khera has authored more than 80 scientific publications, including lead-authored publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Genetics, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation. His work has been recognized as among the top ten research advances by the American Heart Association (in both 2016 and 2018), and he is the 2019 recipient of the Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology. In tandem with his research efforts, he founded and is co-leading a Preventive Genomics Clinic at MGH to provide a clinical infrastructure for genome-first medicine. Registration Required Monthly seminar series hosted by the Precision Medicine Resource of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and featuring leaders in the Precision Medicine field from across the nation.

"Correlating genomic features with the immune microenvironment in pediatric glioma" Ana Tergas, MD | Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Robyn Gartrell, MD, MS | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Oncology Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 999 0430 6839 Passcode: seminar

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar "Human bone metastasis model of prostate cancer on a chip" Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD | Professor of Biomedical Engineering Mark Stein, MD | Associate Professor of Medicine  Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 999 0430 6839 Passcode: seminar