# Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine

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## TL;DR

Cornell's medical school and cancer centre in Manhattan, led by immunotherapy pioneer Jedd Wolchok, with major programmes in lymphoma, gastrointestinal and breast cancer.

## Summary

The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center is the cancer centre of Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University's medical school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and delivers care with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Jedd Wolchok, who led the CheckMate 067 and nivolumab-relatlimab melanoma trials, became its director in 2022. John Leonard's lymphoma programme led AUGMENT; Manish Shah's gastrointestinal oncology group led GLOW in claudin 18.2-positive gastric cancer; and Massimo Cristofanilli directs breast medical oncology and circulating tumour cell research.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-18
- Also known as: Weill Cornell Medicine; Weill Cornell Medical College; Meyer Cancer Center; NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
- City: New York, NY, US
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://meyercancer.weill.cornell.edu

## Sources

- Meyer Cancer Center: https://meyercancer.weill.cornell.edu

## Connected records

- cancers: [Follicular lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/follicular-lymphoma/), [Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gastric/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/)
- institutions: [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/mskcc/)
- people: [Jedd D. Wolchok](https://onco.cc/people/jedd-wolchok/), [John P. Leonard](https://onco.cc/people/john-leonard/), [Manish A. Shah](https://onco.cc/people/manish-shah/), [Massimo Cristofanilli](https://onco.cc/people/massimo-cristofanilli/)

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