The Ty Louis Campbell Foundation (TLC) provided $75,000 in 2023 to support the Dahmane Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in their groundbreaking research on AT/RT, a rare and aggressive childhood brain tumor. This project focuses on understanding the interaction between a key tumor suppressor gene, SMARCB1, and the transcription factor RP58, which plays an important role [...]
Quarterly Research Conference in New York City The Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Network (PBTRN) is a recent initiative in NYC led by Principal Investigator Dr. Robert Wechsler-Reya at Columbia University. The quarterly meeting was created in 2022 as a vehicle to bring together scientists and physicians from and around New York City who are interested in pediatric brain tumor research. The meetings [...]
A much-anticipated article led by Children’s Brain Tumor Project (CBTP) postdoctoral fellows Carolina Cocito and Brice Martin, with Principal Investigators Dr. Nadia Dahmane, Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield, and Dr. Mark Souweidane, and collaborators at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University, was recently published in the April special issue of Neoplasia dedicated to pediatric brain tumors. The paper, “Leptomeningeal Dissemination in [...]
The cold and biting wind on the early morning of Saturday, September 16 didn't keep the athletes away from the annual TYathlon sprint triathlon. Nearly 170 participants lowered themselves into the choppy water of Lake Mahopac at 7:00 am to begin the swim portion of the tri. Once back on land and a short run to [...]
