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Dr. Andrew Schafer Appointed Director of the Silver MPN Center

October 22, 2013

Dr. Andrew Schafer has been appointed director of the Richard T. Silver, M.D. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) Center at Weill Cornell Medicine.

MPNs encompass four main blood diseases: chronic myeloid leukemia or CML, in which bone marrow manufactures too many white blood cells; polycythemia vera, characterized by too many red blood cells; essential thrombocythemia, defined by excess platelets; and primary myelofibrosis, scarring of the bone marrow.

Dr. Andrew Schafer Visits Collaborators at Cornell Ithaca

June 1, 2010

Dr. Schafer walking with colleagues at Cornell Ithaca

Dr. Andrew Schafer, Director of the Silver MPN Center, visits Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, New York as part of a research collaboration that is paving the way for advancements in polycythemia vera, a myeloproliferative neoplasm that causes excess production of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.