Dr. Lisa Roth

Two multi-institutional teams led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have been awarded grant support from the Starr Cancer Consortium. Both grants will fund work applying new technologies to develop more detailed knowledge of tumor biology, with one team focusing on Hodgkin lymphoma and the other on the purity of tumor samples on pathology slides.

Eight Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members have received Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the most awarded to any institution this year.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of April.

Dr. Lisa Roth, assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Bethany Cummings, assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine, have each won a 2018 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which will provide support for three years at $100,000 direct cost per year and designation as a Hartwell Investigator.

Dr. Roth was newly married and fresh from an oncology fellowship when she became a cancer patient. In a Q&A, Dr. Roth shares her story as a physician, cancer survivor and distance runner.

For decades, Weill Cornell has been a leader in the research revolution that's making lymphoma a survivable disease.