Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and professor of medicine, public health and medicine in psychiatry, has been named to the editorial board of BMC Medical Ethics. The journal is a peer-reviewed online publication focused on the ethics of medical research and practice.
Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Translational Research, the journal formerly known as the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. The name and cover change of the 90-year-old prestigious journal reflects "the scientific establishment's new focus on bench-to-bedside research—making sure that discoveries in the laboratory are quickly and easily 'translated' to therapies that are of real benefit to patients," said Dr. Laurence. A pioneer in HIV/AIDS research, Dr. Laurence is also the editor-in-chief of The AIDS Reader and AIDS Patient Care and STDs. The inaugural issue of Translational Research debuts in July.
Dr. Chenjian Li, assistant professor of neuroscience, has been awarded a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The total funding, in the amount of $2.6 million, will be divided among seven other researchers at different institutions under the foundation's "Progressive, Predictive Animal Models" initiative to develop mammalian models of Parkinson's disease. Dr. Li's project, "Rat Transgenic Models for Autosomal Dominant PD via BAC Technology" aims to create the first mammalian models of Parkinson's that reproduce the cardinal PD pathology of dopaminergic neuronal death in the substantia nigra.
Dr. Jonathan Weinsaft, the Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Clinical Scholar and assistant professor of medicine and medicine in radiology, was awarded a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grant. The $400,000 grant, one of only 11 presented this year, will support his research into new imaging techniques to detect heart blood clots in patients recovering from heart attacks. Dr. Weinsaft joined Weill Cornell in 2005, and has since directed the development of the cardiac MRI program, one of few programs nationwide to be structured in association with a cardiology division.
July 17, 2006
