Peritoneal Cancer
Alana Nguyen MD PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Alana Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and specializes in malignancies of the digestive tract. She received her MD from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She went on to complete her postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. After her residency, she entered fellowship training in Medical Oncology at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital in the Physician-Scientist Pathway.
Dr. Nguyen's research focuses on drug development based on biological understanding of therapy resistance. She received a Women Who Conquer Cancer Award from the American Society for Clinical Oncology and its Conquer Cancer Foundation for her work on a 3-dimensional culture model of patient tumors to predict for patients’ response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Dr. Nguyen's is seeking support to fund research aimed at enhancing anti-tumor immunity in peritoneal metastatic cancer. This research will evaluate the role of intraperitoneal administration of dual checkpoint inhibitors in GI malignancies with peritoneal carcinomatosis and ultimately reduce the disease burden and ascites compared to untreated control. A more detailed description of the research program and proposal can be found here