November Newsletter

MDS Center PROGRAMS

E.P. Evans MDS Center Hematological Malignancies Seminar Series:

Wednesday, November 15 ,2023

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

ICRC first floor auditorium

Nancy Speck, PhD

Professor in Medical Science II and Chair

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute

Title: “Regulation of innate immunity by RUNX1”

Hosted By: Stavroula Kousteni, PhD

MDS Faculty Meeting Seminar:

Tuesday, November 14 ,2023

12:00PM to 1:30PM

Black Building, Conference Room 1418

Speaker: Dr. Hans-Willem Snoeck

Title: TBD

E.P. Evans MDS Center Trainee Workshop Series Presentations

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

12:00 PM to 2:00PM

Black Building room 1418

Pizza & refreshments provided

Presenter: Lee, Katherine from Zha lab

Ahn, Yong-Oon from Mace lab

MDS MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Siddhartha Mukherjee has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, for his election to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Mukherjee is recognized for contributing important research in the immunotherapy of myeloid malignancies, such as Acute Myeloid Leukemia, for establishing international centers for immunotherapy for childhood cancers, and for the discovery of tissue resident stem cells. His book, “The Emperor of All Maladies”, won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated by Time as among the century’s 100 most influential books, introducing millions to modern cancer research.

Please see the announcement below.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/two-columbia-faculty-elected-national-academy-medicine

Stavroula Kousteni new R01 grant

Stavroula was recently rewarded a new R01 grant (R01AG080142) from the National Institute of Aging entitled “Molecular Mechanisms of MDS pathogenesis with aging”

Tannishtha Reya new award

Tannishtha just received Tumor Biology and Microenvironment Program Pilot Award for the period of 07/01/23 to 06/30/24 entitled “Targeting Stem Cell Pathways in Early-Stage Myeloid Malignancies.” Stavroula will be the co-investigator.

New Publications

Siddhartha Mukherjee Lab

Ng JQ, Jafarov TH, Little CB, Wang T, Ali AM, Ma Y, Radford GA, Vrbanac L, Ichinose M, Whittle S, Hunter DJ, Lannagan TRM, Suzuki N, Goyne JM, Kobayashi H, Wang TC, Haynes DR, Menicanin D, Gronthos S, Worthley DL, Woods SL, Mukherjee S.

Loss of Grem1-lineage chondrogenic progenitor cells causes osteoarthritis.

Nature Communication. 2023 Oct 31;14(1):6909.

doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42199-1. PMID: 37907525; PMCID: PMC10618187.

Lei Ding Lab

Hirakawa H, Gao L, Tavakol DN, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Ding L.

Cellular plasticity of the bone marrow niche promotes hematopoietic stem cell regeneration.

Nature Genetics (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01528-2

OTHER EVENTS

HICCC PROGRAMS

HICCC Seminar Series: Research-in-Progress

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Mary M. Salvatore, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology Department of Radiology

Title: Prediction and early diagnosis of breast cancer on chest CT

The HICCC and the Department of Epidemiology: Exceptional Series

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES

Associate Professor at the Institute for Health & Equity,

Medical College of Wisconsin

Title: " Eradicating (Colorectal) Cancer Inequity in The Big Apple & Beyond: A Public Health Emergency & Conundrum"

OTHER SEMINARS

CSCI Seminar Series

Thursday, November 16, 2023

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Effie Apostolou PhD

Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Meyer Cancer Center

Title: “Dissecting epigenetic mechanisms that govern physiologic and tumoral cell fate transitions”

G&D Seminar Series

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

David Bartel, PhD

Professor of Biology, MIT;

Core Member, Whitehead Institute;

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title: “Regulation of mRNA translation and decay”

The Biology of Aging Seminar Series