Weill Cornell Medicine Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Residency applicants for 2027 — we’d love to meet you! Join us for a Virtual Open House on August 27 from 4–5 PM EST to learn more about us & meet our team.
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Congratulations to Dr. Domenick Falcone for receiving the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award for his exceptional legacy in medical education! 🎉 His innovative & dedicated teaching in the foundational science curriculum has been recognized by students, faculty, & administration alike. Well deserved! 👏

Congratulations to our Chief Administrative Officer, Margaret Harrison, MHA, who was elected Northeast Regional Representative of the Association for Academic Pathology’s APEX Council!

Congratulations to Dr. Olivier Elemento and colleagues at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine and Dr. Juan Miguel Mosquera from the Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, part of the HCMI Network, on their new paper, "A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse ,” with !

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10806-y

Please join us in welcoming Ilham Putra, MD - our newest faculty member at NY Hospital Queens! Dr. Putra pursued advanced subspecialty training with a fellowship in at Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida, followed by a fellowship at !

New JAMA Network Open paper, "Red Blood Cell Transfusion Characteristics and Morbidity or Mortality in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants" was co-authored by faculty member Dr. Robert A. DeSimone from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine!

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2850682

“These findings reveal a potential new therapeutic vulnerability that could be targeted to overcome drug resistance and extend the benefit of BTK inhibitors for patients with B-cell cancers,” said Dr. Jihye Paik, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine on her recent paper in Nature Communications.

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2026/08/a-promising-solution-to-a-cancer-drug-resistance-problem

New paper "Spatial remodeling of bone marrow architecture defines tissue-state signatures of disease activity & therapeutic response in myelodysplastic neoplasms" by Drs. , Chadburn, Chai, Inghirami, Lindeman,
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Spatial remodeling of bone marrow architecture defines tissue-state signatures of disease activity and therapeutic response in myelodysplastic neoplasms - Leukemia Myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) disrupt bone marrow hematopoiesis, yet clinical assessment relies largely on blast enumeration and qualitative morphology, which incompletely capture marrow architecture and disease state. We applied whole-slide multiplex immunofluorescence imaging with single-cell ph...

Congratulations to Dr. Supram Subramanya for earning the Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award at the ACLPS meeting and the Peggy Cotter Award from the American Society for Microbiology!

Welcome to Dr. Chandler Sy - one of our newest faculty members! Dr. Sy received his Ph.D. and M.D. from Rutgers NJ Medical School, where he trained in Immunology and Medicine. He completed residency in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in June. He also completed a Hematopathology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. We welcome Dr. Sy as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in our Hematopathology division.