Photo credit: Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine (second from left), and Larry Schlossman, managing director of BioPharma Alliances and Research Collaborations at Weill Cornell Medicine (first from left), join the winners of the Daedalus Fund for Innovation awards. From third from left: Dr. Shahin Rafii, Dr. Matthew Greenblatt, Dr. Lew Cantley, Dr. Julie Blander, Dr. Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, Dr. Peter Goldstein, Dr. Barbara Hempstead and Dr. Steven Lipkin.
Eight Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members have been selected for the fifth round of the Daedalus Fund for Innovation awards, a pioneering institutional program that helps advance promising applied and translational research projects and emerging technologies that have commercial potential. Awardees are chosen twice annually and are eligible for two levels of funding: $100,000 and $300,000 (the latter, subject to the satisfaction of certain specified pre-defined milestones).
The researchers — Drs. Julie Blander, Lew Cantley, Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, Peter Goldstein, Matthew Greenblatt, Barbara Hempstead, Steven Lipkin and Shahin Rafii — have each won a Daedalus award to fund proof-of-concept studies that will enhance the data package, thereby helping to upgrade their technologies and translate their early-stage discoveries into new therapeutic modalities and hopefully more effective treatments for patients. To read more, click here.