ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2024
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
Nicolas Gomez Banoy, MD is a physician-scientist with a longstanding interest in understanding the pathophysiology of cardiometabolic diseases and treating patients afflicted with these conditions. He received his medical training in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, where he started developing clinical research exploring biomarkers of diabetic kidney disease and physical exercise. He then moved to the US and New York City to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of James Lo at Weill Cornell Medicine. Here, he worked in pancreatic islet biology and uncovered the role of a complement factor in regulating the survival and identity of insulin-producing beta cells in the context of diabetes. He then joined the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Program as part of the medical research track pathway, which allowed him to accelerate his Internal Medicine training and match directly into Endocrine Fellowship with a heavy emphasis in research. Currently, he serves as a second-year endocrinology fellow at Weill Cornell and MSKCC, as well as a researcher in the Paul Cohen lab at Rockefeller University. His main interests lie in adipose tissue and its connections with the pathophysiology of diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.