Research on Sensitive Blood Test for Cancer Wins 2021 Top-10 Award
The Clinical Research Forum recently awarded cancer biologists from Weill Cornell Medicine its Top-10 Clinical Research Achievement Award for their 2020 study that described a sensitive blood test for detecting a cancer relapse or the disease’s progression. The findings of the study were reported in “Nature Medicine.” The group of researchers was led by associate professor of medicine, Dr. Dan Landau, who is also a member of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center. The study’s first author was Dr. Asaf Zviran, a postdoctoral researcher in Landau’s laboratory. The model developed in their study utilizes DNA whole-genome sequencing of a…











