Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

Tomorrow is the day! Chan Hee Choi will be defending his thesis "Uncovering Regulators of Whole-body Metabolism by Chemoproteomic Profiling of the Adipocyte Secretome" at 2pm. Best of luck and congrats, Chan Hee!

Tomorrow, Thursday the 13th, Robert Fetcho will be defending his thesis: "Frontolimbic Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Anxiety, Social Behavior and Effort-Based Decision-Making." Congrats and best of luck, Robert!

Tomorrow, May 12, Margo Herre will defend her thesis "Fatal Attraction: Principles of Olfactory Coding in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes" at 1pm. Congrats and best of luck, Margo!!

Jake Reed will be defending his thesis tomorrow!! Congrats and best of luck, Jake!

Thesis defense season continues with Du Cheng, defending his thesis "Non-canonical Axonal Insulin Receptor Signaling Drives Aversive Olfactory Learning" on Wednesday, May 5 at 12:30pm. Best of luck and congrats, Du!

Coming up on Friday, April 30th, Kristina Navrazhina will be defending her thesis "Characterizing Inflammatory Mechanisms in Hidradenitis Suppurativa." Best of luck and congrats, Kristina!!

Deeksha Deep has been awarded an @nihgov F30 grant for her project "Dendritic cell heterogeneity and its role in pulmonary fungal infection in the Rudensky Lab at MSKCC. Congrats, Deeksha!! Read more about Deeksha's research at: https://mdphd.weill.cornell.edu//md-phd-student-deeksha-de

Congratulations, Kelly Banks, PhD!!

Congratulations, Robbie Williams, PhD!!

This Friday, December 11, MD-PhD student Kelly Banks will defend her thesis "Epigenetic Regulation of Neutrophil Development and Function by Tet Enzymes" (via live webcast). Best of luck and congrats, Kelly!!

Congrats Tri-I MD-PhD student Sarah Soellner-Szwed, recipient of a research award from The Rockefeller University, where Sarah is currently conducting her thesis research in the Cohen Lab. Sarah's award comes from RU's Shapiro-Silverberg Fund for the Advancement of Translational Research and funds her pilot work characterizing human mutations in potential mediators of thermogenic adipose tissue function. Congrats, Sarah!!

On Thursday, December 10, MD-PhD student Robbie Williams will defend his thesis "Transcriptional Regulation of the Metabolic Response to Therapy in Leukemia" (via webcast). Best of luck and congrats, Robbie!!