Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Bishoy Morris Faltas is the Director of Bladder Cancer Research at the Englander Institute of Precision Medicine Institute at Weill-Cornell Medicine. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cell, and Developmental Biology. He is also the Gellert Family-John P. Leonard, MD Research Scholar in Hematology and Medical Oncology.
Dr. Faltas is a physician-scientist who focuses his research and clinical practice on urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and the upper urinary tract. His laboratory is dedicated to studying bladder cancer as a model disease for dissecting the fundamental biological mechanisms that drive the evolution of human cancers. Dr. Faltas has authored several peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals, including Nature Genetics and Nature Communications. He has received several awards, including the ASCO Young Investigator Award and the AACR NextGen star award. Dr. Faltas received funding for his research program from multiple sources, including the Department of Defense, the NIH-funded MSK SPORE program, the Weill-Cornell CTSC, STARR cancer consortium grants, and the P-1000 consortium. He is leading an investigator-initiated clinical trial examining the clonal evolution of bladder cancer following targeted therapy. He serves as the translational science co-chair for several ongoing Phase II and Phase III clinical trials. He also served as an associate adviser for Science Translational Medicine and a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Communications Biology and Bladder Cancer.
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