Medical Student Research Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

Medical Student Research Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology is sponsored by Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation / Weill Cornell Medical College. This fellowship helps medical students explore a research career in pediatric neuro-oncology. The program focuses on central nervous system (CNS) tumors in children, and the research can be translational, basic science, or clinical.

Medical Student Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-oncology | Neurological Surgery Medical Student Research Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology We are grateful to Jack and Susan Rudin and the Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation for funding this fellowship, which is intended to help medical students explore a research career in pediatric neuro-oncology.

The fellowship program will be based upon an investigative platform having a primary focus on central nervous system (CNS) tumors in children. The research can be variable (i.e. translational, basic science, clinical) and requires a sponsor with a full time faculty appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, or The Rockefeller University.

Courses through the Neuroscience Program of Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences will be integrated into the year-long program. The applicant must be in good academic standing at an accredited medical school in North America. For consideration the applicant must be willing to take one year off from their formal academic schedule.

The fellowship can be conducted any time after the student has completed a minimum of two years of medical college. Application materials must be complete no later than December 31 of the year before the fellowship year . Applications will be reviewed by the Fellowship Advisory Panel with announcements being made by March 15 of the fellowship year.

The application consists of the following: Scientific Proposal (Title, Objective(s), Background, Methods, and Impact: 3-page limit without references) Sponsoring PI letter of support Student affairs or Dean’s letter of commitment from parent institution (which must be an accredited medical school in North America) Two letters of recommendation, following the guidelines below: Must be on referee’s letterhead Must be signed by the referee Must be addressed to Dr. Mark Souweidane (Fellowship Director) Department of Neurological Surgery 525 East 68th Street, Starr 651 – Box 99 Application materials should be emailed to neurosurgery-pedsfellow@med.

cornell. edu If selected for the fellowship, the candidate will be required to sign an institutional commitment letter to accept it. The Fellowship will provide the awardee a stipend of $32,000 for the research year and will provide support for publication costs, travel, and meeting registration that are directly applicable to the work conducted during the year.

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Well Medical College 525 East 68 Street, Box 99 Fellowship Advisory Panel for the Rudin Foundation Medical Student Research Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology: Dr. Nadia Dahmane (Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine) Dr. Ira Dunkel (Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield (Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine) Dr. David Pisapia (Department of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine) Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna (Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine) Dr. Jedd D.

Wolchok (Meyer Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center) University of Connecticut School of Medicine Study : Optimizing Liquid Biopsy in Children with Diffuse Midline Glioma Mentor : Mark Souweidane, MD Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Study: Human-Specific NOTCH2NL as an Antisense Oligonucleotide Target in Pediatric Glioma Mentor: Viviane Tabar, MD Weill Cornell Medical School Mentor: Mark Souweidane, MD Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Study: Characterizing the Blood-Brain Barrier of Pediatric Brain Tumors Mentors: Mark Souweidane, MD, and Jeffrey Greenfield, MD,PhD Boston University School of Medicine Study: Elucidating the Role of Mini-Chromosome Maintenance (MCM) Protein-Containing Exosomes in Medulloblastoma Progression Mentor: David Lyden, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical School Study: Quantitative Evaluation of Advanced Delivery Strategies for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Using an 18F-PET Labeled Panobinostat Analogue Mentor: Mark Souweidane, MD Weill Cornell Medical School Study: Mapping the Spatial Evolution and Genetic-Epigenetic Landscape in Gliomatosis Cerebri Mentor: Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Study: Patterns of relapse of children with localized intracranial ependymoma Mentor: Suzanne Wolden, MD Weill Cornell Medical School Study: Combination Therapy for DIPG Mentor: Mark Souweidane, MD 525 E.

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