Accelerating BioVenture Innovation Participants Pitch Tri-Institutional Technologies to Early-Stage Venture Capitalists
December 12, 2023
BioVenture eLab celebrated the hard work of its 2023 Accelerating BioVenture Innovation cohort with a pitch event on Dec. 6 in Uris Auditorium. The group of graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and clinicians from Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University received 12 weeks of intense didactic instruction. They then spent three weeks putting their knowledge about intellectual property, research and development, and market research into polishing investor pitches for the Tri-I inventions that formed the basis of their experimental NewCos.
Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Cognition During Chronic Recovery Phase of Brain Injury
December 4, 2023
Five people who had life-altering, seemingly irreversible cognitive deficits following moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries showed substantial improvements in their cognition and quality of life after receiving an experimental form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a phase 1 clinical trial. The trial, reported Dec. 4 in Nature Medicine, was led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Stanford University, the Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Medical School and the University of Utah.
Entrepreneurial Surgeon Presents at Eclectic Convergence Summit, a Conference about Disruption, Growth, and the Power of AI
November 30, 2023
Barry J. Beck (’90), founder of Bluemercury and CEO of Evenly Technologies, talked about entrepreneurs as disrupters, those people who see targets that no one can, and have the business savvy to move their ideas forward. “Especially with AI and the information superhighway right at your fingertips, it really levels the playing field,” he said. “I feel like people think entrepreneurs are these mythological creatures, but they’re just exceedingly good risk managers.”
Building Trust and Fostering Collaborations Key to Startup Formation
November 29, 2023
One of the hardest points on the translational road “from bench to bedside” can be the point where you have to turn over your discovery to a company you’ve founded—a company whose subsequent direction you won’t fully control.
New Radiopharmaceutical Shows Antitumor Activity in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer
November 3, 2023
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have led a phase 1 trial of a new drug that delivers potent radiation therapy directly and specifically to cancer cells in patients with advanced prostate cancer. The clinical trial showed that the “radiopharmaceutical” was well tolerated and demonstrated promising antitumor activity, according to a new study published on Nov. 2 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Dr. Chenxu Zhu Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
October 2, 2023
Dr. Chenxu Zhu, an assistant professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and a core faculty member of the New York Genome Center, has been awarded the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award to fund an ambitious project to develop single-cell sequencing tools, known collectively as “multi-omics,” that will help track age-related changes in gene regulation programs, as well as cell decay, in brain cells from preclinical models.
Intercampus Symposium Brings Together Cornell Researchers Studying Metabolic Health
October 1, 2023
Diabetes, obesity, and metabolic diseases are complex health problems and important threats to human health. Ensuring optimal metabolic health requires multidisciplinary solutions. On Sept. 11 and 12, a cross-campus symposium brought together nearly 100 Cornell researchers from the Ithaca Campus and the Weill Cornell Medicine Campus in New York City to catalyze the kind of interdisciplinary collaborations necessary to address this growing health challenge.
NIH Center Grant Bolsters Male Contraceptive Research
September 21, 2023
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a three-year, nearly $6 million grant to lead one of three national contraceptive research centers. The grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, will fund the Weill Cornell Medicine Contraception Development Research Center. Led by Drs. Jochen Buck and Lonny Levin, both professors of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, the center will focus on developing an on-demand male contraceptive.
Budding Entrepreneurial Success at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
September 18, 2023
Dr. Hani Najafi, an assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, was the first WCM-Q participant in the $100K Biomedical Business Plan Challenge Pitch Day competition hosted by the BioVenture eLab. Enterprise Innovation asked him to share his latest study that can lead to potential therapies for cardiometabolic diseases and obesity.
Entrepreneurship and the Power of Story Telling
September 12, 2023
An Accelerating BioVenture Innovation (ABI) student asked Dr. Erandi De Silva, the guest speaker of the Fall 2023 cohort kickoff event hosted on Aug. 29 in a packed Uris Auditorium, how she was able to convince venture capitalists with an idea of gene therapy development and operationalization on paper.