The Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program is a MD–PhD degree program based in Upper East Side , New York City . Introduced in 1991, the current program is operated by Weill Cornell Medicine , Rockefeller University , and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 's Sloan Kettering Institute.
5-527: The program is currently directed by Katharine C. Hsu . Students who complete the program are awarded an M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College and a Ph.D. from either Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences , Rockefeller University, or the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In 2019, the program processed over 500 applications for 18 spots. These positions are funded by
10-655: A Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from Stanford University in 1987. She received a Doctor of Philosophy in cell biology in 1993 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1994, both from Cornell University . During her doctoral studies at Cornell University, she studied at the laboratory of Moses Chao , who was her doctoral advisor. Her doctoral dissertation was titled, Mechanisms of TNF receptor action: Studies using chimeric receptor mutants . Hsu completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 1997. She completed
15-578: A postdoctoral fellowship in hematology and oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in 2002. Hsu joined the faculty of Cornell Medical College . She worked as an instructor of medicine from 2003 to 2008, as an assistant professor of medicine from 2008 to 2011 and as an associate professor of medicine from 2011 to 2016. She was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2012. She became
20-528: The National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) for the full length of training, which is typically 7–8 years. In recent years, the program has pioneered a summer program known as "Gateways to the Laboratory" in order to increase the number of students who are from underrepresented backgrounds in science and medicine. Alumni from this program often matriculate in
25-659: The Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program, and make up a significant portion of its class. Katharine C. Hsu Katharine Chia-Rae Hsu is an American physician-scientist with a field of research in human natural killer cells . A professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine , she has served as the director of the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program since April 2021. Hsu lived in Tuxedo Park, New York for fifteen years. Hsu received
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