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Aspiring physician-scientist to investigate glioblastoma

Communications Department — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:44 +0000

In a statement, Northwell Health announced that Ethan Ertel, an M.D./Ph.D. student from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, will join ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) and Northwell teams researching glioblastoma. Ertel will contribute to collaborative laboratory research overseen by CSHL Professor Alea Mills and Northwell’s John Boockvar. The graduate student...

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Brescia Foundation supports ILFS-1 research at CSHL

Gina Dipietro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:30:58 +0000

When Patricia and Jason Brescia welcomed their first child, Jason Michael Brescia Jr., in December 2022, they could not have imagined how quickly joy would turn to heartbreak. Born prematurely at 27 weeks, Jason Michael Jr. spent 54 days in intensive care before being diagnosed with Infantile Liver Failure Syndrome type 1 (ILFS-1), a rare...

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A new fix for brain cancer?

Communications Department — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:30:26 +0000

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CSHL launches inaugural brain tumor meeting

Nick Wurm — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:30:34 +0000

Brain cancers are some of the hardest to treat. The five-year survival rate for patients with glioblastoma is only about 5% after diagnosis. Tackling this and other deadly brain cancers isn’t a one-person job; collaboration is key. What better place to get those conversations going than ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL)? For more than a...

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‘The bridge between hope and healing’

Caroline Cosgrove — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:30:58 +0000

Tens of millions of people affected by brain cancer, strokes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurological diseases share a painful dilemma: a lack of viable therapeutic options. Tantalizingly, one of the biggest treatment obstacles is the very thing that protects the brain from harm: the blood-brain barrier (BBB). While the BBB does a remarkable job of...

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At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Cancer

Communications Department — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:30:26 +0000

Miss an episode or two from the first season of our new podcast? Over the next few weeks, we’ll revisit each in a series we call ‘Research Rewind.’ This week At the Lab, you’ll hear all about our cutting-edge cancer research from CSHL scientists Semir Beyaz, Mikala Egeblad, Alea Mills, John Moses, and Christopher Vakoc....

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At the Lab Episode 24: Putting the brakes on brain cancer

Communications Department — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:30:13 +0000

If you’ve heard of glioblastoma, you might’ve heard of it in reference to some of the lives this brain cancer has claimed. Beau Biden’s is one of several high-profile deaths in recent decades. CSHL Professor Alea Mills has spoken to ABC Eyewitness News about the deadly disease. Now, she brings us deeper inside her team’s...

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Pancreatic cancer’s cellular amnesia

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:00:13 +0000

Things aren’t always as they seem. Take pancreatic cancer, for example. In up to one in 10 cases, researchers have documented a peculiar characteristic. Some of the pancreatic cells appear to have lost their identity. It’s as if they forget what they are. Former ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) postdoc Diogo Maia-Silva, now at Massachusetts...

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The evolution of autism research

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:30:32 +0000

The scientific community’s views on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have changed significantly over the last two decades. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has played an important role in this evolution, as our scientists have uncovered several genetic factors underlying ASD. Of course, that evolution didn’t happen overnight. It is the result of progressive research that...

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Cracking the mystery behind a deadly brain cancer

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:00:21 +0000

The brain cancer, glioblastoma, is a fierce and formidable opponent. Its millions of victims include Senator John McCain, President Biden’s son, Beau, and famed film critic Gene Siskel, to name just a few. Most patients succumb within two years and few make it past five, a statistic that hasn’t improved in decades due to lack...

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��ϳԹ��Դ 2022 Ph.D.’s

Communications Department — Sun, 01 May 2022 22:00:07 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences takes an innovative approach to advanced education. Graduates of the doctoral program pursue diverse careers. This year, ten students were awarded Ph.D. degrees. Here they recall memories and experiences that they take from the Laboratory moving forward. Brianna Lynn Bibel St. Mary’s College of California...

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The Darlene Carbone Brain Tumor Foundation donates $25,000 to CSHL

Jill Stone — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:00:23 +0000

On January 21, Michael and Angelo Carbone joined Dr. Kevin Mullins at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) to present a check for $25,000.00 to Dr. Alea Mills whose lab is doing research on glioblastoma (GBM). GBM is a fast-growing and aggressive primary brain tumor. GBMs are a devastating type of brain cancer with an average...

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Breaking the chain that culminates in cancer

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:04 +0000

In a line of dominos, if you take out a single piece, the last one will never fall. Similarly, a lot of pieces have to line up and be pushed at the same time in a cell to result in cancer. Twenty-two years ago, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Alea Mills discovered the protein...

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CSHL graduate student wins HHMI fellowship

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:04:02 +0000

School of Biological Sciences student David Johnson has been awarded a 2019 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The goal of the Gilliam Fellowship program is to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science, particularly as college and university faculty, by supporting...

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What does sight mean to a cancer researcher?

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:41:22 +0000

ur image of cancer researchers is often that of lab-coated scientists peering into microscopes, looking at samples that will lead to important breakthroughs. But what does it really mean for a cancer researcher to see? Dr. Leah Banks, a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Alea A. Mills’s lab at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), has given...

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Path to cancer in the brain set by protein CHD5

Jennifer Michalowski — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:52:43 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Perfectly normal events can have disastrous consequences when they happen at the wrong time. Take, for example, a horse race, says ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Alea Mills. The action begins when the competitors are allowed to burst forth from the starting gate. But if a gate is broken, allowing...

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Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Peter Tarr — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:07:30 +0000

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at ��ϳԹ��Դ. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. It’s standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

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Realizing a dream: How a program for undergraduates placed me at the center of CRISPR research

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:58:10 +0000

Hands-on experience using CRISPR and access to top scientists from around the world who are pioneering its use made this a memorable summer for Undergraduate Research Program participant Sean Connelly. t breakfast on campus one summer morning, a friendly passerby sat down with me and we started talking about CRISPR. This new technology, which I...

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Partners Profile: High School Senior Tamanna Bhatia on becoming a scientist

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:07:12 +0000

The young scientists in CSHL’s Partners for the Future Program have a real impact—not only by conducting research in the lab, but also by inspiring the people they meet. hen 18-year-old Tamanna Bhatia came to the Human Resources office at CSHL to hand in some paperwork, she mentioned she had some time to kill before...

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12th annual LI2DAY Walk raises over $400,000

Communications Department — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:01:55 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) is among 17 Long Island-based organizations to receive funding from the 2015 Long Island 2 Day Walk to Fight Breast Cancer. This year’s walk raised over $400,000 for outreach services, educational programs and research to benefit women and their families affected by breast and other cancers...

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