Peter Morgenstern, M.D., a fifth-year resident in neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, has been awarded the 2015 Kenneth Shulman Award from the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). This award is given each year for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Joint Section by a resident-in-training. Dr. Morgenstern's winning paper is "Menin: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma," conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Viviane Tabar of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
This brings the total of Weill Cornell winners of this prestigious award to four. Previous winners were Dr. Caitlin Hoffman in 2012, Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield in 2007, and Dr. David Sandberg in 2001.
Dr. Morgenstern was earlier this year awarded an NREF Research Fellowship for his work on menin and DIPG. DIPG is one of the primary targets of the Weill Cornell Children's Brain Tumor Project, co-directed by Dr. Mark Souweidane and Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield.
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