NYGC researchers recognized again for publishing papers in top 1% by citations for their fields NEW YORK, NY (November 15, 2023) – Core Faculty Members at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) are among the world’s most-cited researchers, and have been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list for the fifth consecutive year. […]
CRISPR editing allows for in-depth study of leading candidate gene for autism spectrum disorder NEW YORK, NY (October 5, 2023) – Researchers have used CRISPR gene editing, stem cells and human neurons to understand the role of a gene that is commonly mutated in autism. This new study, published today in The American Journal of […]
Chenxu Zhu, PhD, is a New York Genome Center (NYGC) Core Faculty Member with joint appointments as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. This is the fifth NYGC faculty member to receive the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. NEW YORK, NY […]
NEW YORK, NY (September 28, 2023) — “There can be a stigma and secrecy when it comes to cancer,” says Dr. Balogun. “Sometimes there’s an underappreciation for the fact that what’s ailing you might also affect somebody in the family. I tell women, ‘Stop the secrecy. Talking can save a life.’” This is a quote […]
NEW YORK, NY (September 1, 2023) — Hemali Phatnani, PhD, Director of the Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease (CGND) at the New York Genome Center and Assistant Professor at Columbia University, spoke with Target ALS about her involvement with the foundation since its inception, and how their funding has shaped her research experience. “Target […]
NEW YORK, NY (August 30, 2023) — Simon Tavaré, PhD, New York Genome Center (NYGC) Senior Core Associate Member and Founding Director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics (IICD) at Columbia University, was recently featured in a piece on the 5-year anniversary of the IICD. In the article, Simon Tavaré comments […]
