Addressing a radical of researchers, educators and leaders from divers world disciplines and backgrounds successful the Statler Ballroom connected Oct. 1, Dr. Yoon Kang, elder subordinate dean for acquisition and the Richard P. Cohen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medical Education astatine Weill Cornell Medicine, identified the communal rule that had motivated them to stitchery together. “The aboriginal of medicine, the aboriginal of optimizing wellness outcomes,” she said, “is information and technology.”
More than 70 module from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Engineering and Cornell Tech assembled successful Ithaca — and much joined remotely — to footwear disconnected the Cornell Engineering Innovations successful Medicine (CEIM) initiative. The recently launched effort, which has been identified arsenic a precedence by assemblage leadership, aims to meaningfully beforehand objective and translational research, arsenic good arsenic make caller acquisition programs, done unconventional cross-campus partnerships.
“I truly judge that we person an accidental to make a one-of-a benignant hub that would bring unneurotic Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine,” said Emmanuel Giannelis, the inaugural CEIM director, astatine the opening reception of the weekend-long kickoff symposium. “And we're already talking astir expanding to see different partners, present successful Ithaca arsenic good arsenic successful New York City.”
CEIM has already had immoderate aboriginal success: Among the attendees was the initiative’s archetypal M.D.-M.Eng. students. The M.D.-M.Eng. is simply a caller grade programme that allows aesculapian students astatine Weill Cornell Medicine who person completed their 3rd twelvemonth to prosecute a year-long immersion successful engineering people enactment and plan projects successful Ithaca. Among the archetypal of its kind, the programme aims to hole aboriginal M.D.s to signifier astatine the intersection of medicine, information sciences and engineering.
Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, noted that the program had been to admit the archetypal cohort of M.D.-M.Eng. students successful Fall 2023, and helium was encouraged to spot aboriginal request for the unique, cross-disciplinary grooming the grade programme provides.
“This is, frankly, conscionable the opening of what we spot arsenic a robust milieu of acquisition programming that takes vantage of our unthinkable faculty, teaching and plan workplace infrastructure — arsenic good arsenic our Cornell-wide committedness to supporting innovation successful however we amended students — to bid aboriginal generations of clinicians and engineers,” Archer said.
The play lawsuit marked the opening of ongoing conversations and enactment to make sustainable bridges betwixt collaborators poised to signifier the aboriginal of medicine and engineering. Building connected the momentum provided by the kickoff event, Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering leaders are successful the aboriginal stages of defining engagement mechanisms for faculty, students and probe unit intended to marque the opportunities astatine the bosom of CEIM portion of the civilization connected some campuses.
Short-term initiatives volition absorption connected bolstering indispensable supports — including staffing, lodging and entree to infrastructure and information — that alteration exchanges by module and students funny successful immersion experiences successful laboratories oregon clinics successful New York City oregon Ithaca. Longer-term efforts will, among different things, absorption connected jointly hiring module who presumption Cornell for enactment successful the aboriginal absorption areas of the initiative: data-driven medicine, immunoengineering and cancer, insubstantial engineering and neurotechnology.
Looking further into the future, the CEIM enactment plans to assemble halfway module and programming arsenic portion of a disciplined strategy to heighten Cornell’s estimation arsenic a premier instauration for education, probe and exertion innovations that amended objective care.
“We already person a assemblage of scholars who are innovating astatine the intersection of engineering and diligent care, arsenic evidenced by each of you present today, and we question to marque it adjacent stronger,” said Augustine M. K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and assemblage provost for aesculapian affairs, astatine the event. “This is an exciting, emerging field, and we’re arrogant that Cornell volition beryllium starring the way.”
Kickoff Photo Gallery
The pursuing photos supply a glimpse of the sessions astatine the kickoff lawsuit devoted to exploring CEIM’s archetypal absorption areas:
Session 1: Data-Driven Medicine
Dr. Olivier Elemento, manager of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, discussed the usage of aesculapian avatars, which helium noted “requires heavy practice betwixt medicine and engineering.”
Dr. Rainu Kaushal, elder subordinate dean of objective probe and astatine Weill Cornell Medicine; Deborah Estrin, subordinate dean for interaction astatine Cornell Tech and a prof of colonisation wellness sciences astatine Weill Cornell Medicine; David Shmoys, Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies astatine Cornell Engineering; and Dr. Ari Melnick, the Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology astatine Weill Cornell Medicine; and Dr. Elemento (not pictured) spoke connected a sheet moderated by Mert Sabuncu, an subordinate prof successful Cornell Engineering based astatine Cornell Tech. On the panel, Estrin discussed her involvement successful “messy problems,” including the deficiency of information sets indispensable to physique effectual algorithms that alteration personalized medicine.
Session 2: Organoids and Tissue Engineering
Lawrence Bonassar, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor successful Biomedical Engineering, shared his enactment connected insubstantial engineering, noting that commercialized products involving engineered tissues are “poised to instrumentality off.”
Dr. Shahin Rafii, main of the Division of Regenerative Medicine, manager of the Ansary Stem Cell Institute and Hartman Institute for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration, and the Arthur B. Belfer Professor successful Genetic Medicine astatine Weill Cornell Medicine; Dr. Shuibing Chen, the Kilts Family Professor of Surgery astatine Weill Cornell Medicine; Shaoyi Jiang, the Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor astatine Cornell Engineering; and Bonassar spoke connected a sheet moderated by Todd Evans, subordinate dean for probe and the Peter I. Pressman, M.D. Professor successful Surgery astatine Weill Cornell Medicine. “Collaboration makes our enactment overmuch much applicable and overmuch much impactful,” Jiang said.
Session 3: Educational Initiatives
Dr. Yoon Kang, elder subordinate dean for acquisition and the Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Associate Professor of Medical Education astatine Weill Cornell Medicine, encouraged the assemblage to reverse-engineer their structures with improving diligent outcomes arsenic the starting point.
Marjolein van der Meulen, the James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering; Newton de Faria, manager of the Masters of Engineering programme astatine the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering; and Dr. Kang discussed a assortment of promising acquisition initiatives, including a caller undergraduate immersion programme for Cornell Engineering students astatine Weill Cornell Medicine. “If we bash this close connected the acquisition side, we’re going to beryllium precise good positioned to code big, large questions,” van der Meulen said.
Session 4: Immunoengineering and Cancer
Claudia Fischbach, the Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering, identified “huge opportunities” to usage existing Cornell facilities much efficaciously for biomedical research.
Dr. Silvia Formenti, seat of radiation oncology and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Professor of Cancer Research; Matt Paszek, subordinate prof astatine Cornell Engineering; Anandasabapathy, Fischbach, and Dr. Melnick spoke connected a sheet astir immunoengineering. Paszek encouraged the country to see issues of equity successful personalized medicine, saying, “If lone the wealthiest radical successful the wealthiest nations tin spend these technologies, we’re leaving a batch connected the table.”
Session 5: Neurotech
Nozomi Nishimura, subordinate prof astatine Cornell Engineering, noted that “it’s a truly breathtaking clip to beryllium astatine the interface of engineering and neuroscience.”
Dr. Conor Liston, subordinate prof of psychiatry astatine Weill Cornell Medicine, addressed the assemblage remotely.
Chris Schaffer, prof astatine Cornell Engineering; Chris Xu, IBM Professor of Engineering and Director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics; and Dr. Emre Aksay, subordinate prof of physiology and biophysics astatine Weill Cornell Medicine explored the benefits that could look from collaborations betwixt Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering successful neurotech.
There was besides plentifulness of clip for casual speech among the attendees, including Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering.
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