The Institutes for Translational Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ConduITS) announces the awardees of the 2025-2027 KL2 Scholars Award for Clinical and Translational Research Career Development. This career development program is funded through...
Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Her proposal is titled ‘Generating a Multimodal Machine Learning Model for Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Recurrence’. Her mentors will be: Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Michael Marin, MD, and Gerald...
Dr. Xiaoqi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy. His proposal is titled ‘Nanoparticle STING Immunotherapy Against TP53-Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia’. His mentors will be: Brian Brown, PhD, and Joshua Brody, MD. Dr. Xiaoqi is...
Dr. Jones is an Instructor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Her proposal is titled ‘Private equity acquisition of home health and hospice: disparities in health outcomes for older adults with advanced cancer’. Her mentors will be: Sean Morrison, MD, Jenny...
Dr. Guisado is a Pediatric IBD Translational Research Fellow. Her proposal is titled ‘Investigating the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche in Crohn’s Disease’. Her mentors will be: Louis Cohen, MD and Judy Cho, MD. Dr. Guisado has been dedicated to biomedical research...
Dr. Feng is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastrointestinal Oncology. Her proposal is titled ‘Targeting IL-4 signaling in immunosuppressive myelopoiesis to overcome resistance to checkpoint blockade in colorectal cancer liver metastasis’. Her...
Currently Dr. Siddiq is working on taking a Systems Pharmacology approach to promoting axonal regeneration in the injured central nervous system (CNS). He is using the optic nerve model for regeneration, but hopes to expand the work to the spinal cord injury model in...
Dr. Lesseur is a molecular epidemiologist and bioinformatician with research interests in multi-omics (epi/genomics) and gene-environment interactions in relation to early-life, pregnancy, and cancer outcomes. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of...