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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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CSHL develops endometrial cancer organoid platform

Nick Wurm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:00:21 +0000

More than 68,000 women will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2026. More than 14,000 will die from this condition. While some forms of the disease are treatable, high grade endometrial cancer often resists available immunotherapies. “High grade endometrial cancers (HGEC) are very aggressive,” explains ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Semir Beyaz. “Even when...

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Immune response to cancer may cause brain disease

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, many of which are mutated. If cancer arises from cellular mutation, why don’t we all have the disease all the time? Second: Severe autoimmune conditions like lupus and multiple sclerosis often strike without warning. No one knows...

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Our Daughters Foundation donates $200,000 to CSHL

Gina Dipietro — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:30:29 +0000

This Endometriosis Awareness Month, there is much to be hopeful for at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). CSHL Associate Professor Semir Beyaz’s lab, in collaboration with Northwell Health, has published results from the world’s first endometrial biobank. This new platform for discovery was made possible through patient volunteers who donated tissue for fundamental biology research...

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Special edition: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Communications Department — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:30:49 +0000

Today, the five-year survival rate for early-stage breast cancer is about 99%. Awareness drives detection. But what about those breast cancers that aren’t caught early? What about those that evade common therapies? For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we sat down with CSHL Professor David Spector to discuss some of his lab’s latest research and the...

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A new fix for brain cancer?

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

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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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Women’s lives, breast health, and cancer

Communications Department — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:30:50 +0000

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President’s essay: The continuous cycle of discovery

Communications Department — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:30:43 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) is a vibrant intellectual community that enables groundbreaking discovery. Our idyllic setting and state-of-the-art facilities offer a uniquely supportive environment for bioscience breakthroughs. However, CSHL’s community is not bound by the geography of our campus. Science worldwide has been strengthened by people who spend time on our campus and by...

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CSHL and Northwell Health extend strategic affiliation

Phil Renna — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:30:22 +0000

The historic agreement aims to translate basic bioscience into a clinical setting, providing cancer patients with greater access to personalized healthcare. NEW YORK, NY — Leaders from two of New York’s preeminent bioscience and healthcare institutions came together at Carnegie Hall to acknowledge the signing of an update to their affiliation agreement initiated in 2015....

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Future doctors spend summer as CSHL scientists

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:30:53 +0000

As a hub for STEM education, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) doesn’t just help produce the next generation of scientists. We also provide a research platform for young medical students. The Summer Research Internship for Medical Students (SRIMS) program at CSHL gives future doctors a taste for lab research. The internship program is open to...

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President’s essay: Bringing bold visions to life

Communications Department — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:30:08 +0000

The art of high-impact research, which is at the core of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), is to pursue important questions, follow unanticipated leads, and be bold in crafting new ideas. In this way, we challenge our researchers to move science into new frontiers. While our scientists have freedom to pursue their ideas, they are...

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Unlocking cancer’s ancestry

Nick Wurm — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:30:39 +0000

RAIDS (Robust Ancestry Inference using Data Synthesis) could help fill these knowledge gaps. Image: © Tex vector – stock.adobe.com" data-description="" />Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer’s ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie deep within vast databases and hospital archives containing hundreds of...

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Targeting cancer’s Achilles heel

Communications Department — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:30:01 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » Matthew Weiss dreams of the day when his oncology practice will operate very differently. A surgeon at the Northwell Health System in New York who treats pancreatic cancer—one of the deadliest malignancies known—he doesn’t have a lot of choices when it comes to saving his patients. Some people with...

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Cancer has a lot of nerve

Communications Department — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:30:51 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » Manish Vira, a urologist at Northwell Health in New York performs prostate biopsy procedures three to five times a week. He inserts 12 needles into the prostate gland in specific locations, identified by MRI images that reveal malignant or suspicious lesions. The samples then go to a pathologist who...

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Famotidine clinical trial shows COVID-19 symptom reduction

Dagnia Zeidlickis — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:00:46 +0000

A high dose of famotidine, commonly known as Pepcid®, was found to have beneficial effects in adult patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to results of an outpatient clinical trial. Patients who took famotidine in this trial experienced a decrease of inflammation within the body and reported earlier alleviation of symptoms. Findings from the...

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Research matters

Communications Department — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:00:08 +0000

When SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) spread throughout the world, 2020 immediately became a historic year. The virus recognized no boundaries; neither physical nor political. Our Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference center employees in Suzhou, China, were the first affected by the pandemic, and soon thereafter, in March, we faced COVID-19 in New York. Like people everywhere, Cold...

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New genetic research to understand racial disparity in cancers

Dagnia Zeidlickis — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:00:34 +0000

Clinicians and scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) will lead three new projects championed by the New York Genome Center (NYGC) to investigate the genetic contributions of ethnicity to the increased incidence of colon, endometrial, and pancreas cancers in African Americans. CSHL’s Cancer Center investigators will collaborate with Northwell Health Cancer Institute (Northwell) and...

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Who COVID-19 hit hardest in New York

Communications Department — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:31:39 +0000

For the first time since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak appeared in the United States new research from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research provides a comprehensive analysis of the New York population that sought care from Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health system. The study, published July 8 in the journal Clinical...

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Applying symptom tracking to COVID-19 outpatient care using famotidine

Eliene Augenbraun — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:30:56 +0000

A patient-reported symptom tracking method used for patients with cancer has now been adapted for patients with COVID-19. Investigating the effect of famotidine, a potential treatment for COVID-19, on non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19, clinicians at Northwell Health and cancer researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) developed the method to use in addition to laboratory...

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