Dr. Dan Landau, an assistant professor of medicine and of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and a core member of the New York Genome Center, has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health for his research on how tumor cells evolve and acquire new mutations to evade cancer therapies.

At 12:44 a.m. on January 1, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital welcomed its New Year’s Baby, Joseph Patrick Bernstein.

Older adults with cancer are nearly 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack in the year prior to their diagnosis compared with peers without a cancer diagnosis in that same time period, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.

In a phase three clinical trial, a drug called sorafenib stopped progression of desmoid tumors for two years in 80 percent of patients who completed treatment, a significant increase in progression-free survival compared with placebo. (Progression-free survival is the length of time a patient lives without worsening of the disease).

Leading Cancer Researcher to Join Columbia, NewYork-Presbyterian as Cancer Center Director

NewYork-Presbyterian has been named the 2018 Career & Technical Education (CTE) Partner of the Year by the New York City Department of Education and the CTE Advisory Council. NewYork-Presbyterian was recognized for its commitment to the students of Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies.

Treating patients with advanced, metastatic esophageal cancer with an immune-system boosting drug called pembrolizumab, known by its brand name Keytruda, led to regression of tumors in some patients, according to results of a phase 2 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital recently won two Best and Brightest awards from the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). In 2018, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital was recognized as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For and was among the Best and Brightest in Wellness.