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2024 May 01

Dr. Timothy Ryan Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Timothy Ryan , professor of biochemistry in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. Dr. Ryan was... Read more

2024 Apr 30

April: Awards & Honors

Dr. Eloise Chapman-Davis , associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was awarded the Health Equity Awareness and Advocacy in Gynecologic Oncology Award by the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO). The award... Read more

2024 Apr 29

Haiti Study Suggests Early-Onset Heart Failure is Prevalent Form of Heart Disease in Low-Income Countries

Early-onset heart failure is alarmingly common in urban Haiti—over 15-fold higher than previously estimated—according to a study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers in partnership with the Haitian medical... Read more

2024 Apr 25

Pregnancy Cytokine Levels Impact Fetal Brain Development and Offspring Behavior

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered in a preclinical model that cytokines, proteins that control immune response, circulating in maternal blood during pregnancy may mitigate an offspring's risk for... Read more

immunofluorescent staining of the coronary lesion

2024 Apr 24

Solving the Riddle of the Sphingolipids in Coronary Artery Disease

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related molecule known as a sphingolipid, suggesting a promising new strategy for the treatment of... Read more

2024 Apr 23

Dr. Ashley Nelson Receives Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award

Dr. Ashley Nelson , an assistant professor of immunology research in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a 2023 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation ... Read more

2024 Apr 23

Dr. Adam D. Cheriff Named Chief Operating Officer of Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Organization

Dr. Adam D. Cheriff, a physician and healthcare executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, has been named the new chief operating officer of Weill Cornell Medicine's Physician Organization, effective May 1... Read more

illustration of bacteria floating over intestinal villi

2024 Apr 23

Gut Microbiota Acts Like an Auxiliary Liver

Microbes in the mammalian gut can significantly change their hosts’ amino acid and glucose metabolism, acting almost like an extra liver, according to a new preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The... Read more

pink macrophages engulfing orange rodlike bacteria

2024 Apr 22

An Immune Powerhouse: Dr. Carl Nathan on the Potential of Interferon-γ

Dr. Carl Nathan, chair of the department of microbiology and immunology and the R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has co-authored a review in Science on the immune protein interferon-... Read more

2024 Apr 22

Message to Weill Cornell Medicine Community About Patient Safety Programs

Cornell University President Martha Pollack and Dr. Robert A. Harrington, Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, sent the following message on Apr. 22 to the Weill Cornell Medicine community. Dear Weill... Read more

2024 Apr 19

Meet This Year’s Champions of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Dr. Andrea Card , assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has always embraced diversity, equity and inclusion, starting in the 1990s when she was a medical student—long before it became a priority across... Read more

2024 Apr 18

Beating the Drum: Pushing for More Gender Equity in Cardiovascular Care

Despite decades of halting progress, women’s cardiovascular disease diagnosis, treatment and outcomes continue to lag behind men’s, said Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, the Irwin and Sheila Allen Chair in Women’s Heart Research in... Read more

2024 Apr 18

Addressing Health Care Disparities Will Require Debunking Common Myths

To imagine a society without racial disparities in health care, we must consider the real reasons inequities exist, said Dr. Thomas LaVeist , Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity at the Tulane University... Read more

schematic of atomic force microscopy results showing 5 states of the protein and the energy landscape

2024 Apr 17

Tracking a Protein’s Fleeting Shape Changes

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to generate “movies” of changing protein structures at speeds of up to 50 frames per second. Senior author, Dr. Simon Scheuring , the... Read more

2024 Apr 16

Weill Cornell Initiative Continues to Bolster Diversity in Doctoral Programs

Cinthia Garcia was always passionate about science and medicine. The first in her family to complete post-secondary education, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Emmanuel College in Boston in 2018 and then became a... Read more

2024 Apr 16

Infographic: Understanding Head and Neck Cancers

How much do you know about cancers of the head and neck? Help protect yourself by staying educated. Download the guide here or review the infographic online . Read more

2024 Apr 16

How a Stroke of Luck, A Few Coincidences, and Good Morning America Helped One Woman Through Leukemia and Beyond

Back in August 2019, Stacy Levy was watching Good Morning America (GMA) with her husband when Dr. Gail Roboz, the Director of the Leukemia Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, appeared on... Read more

2024 Apr 15

Podcast: Latest Research and Treatments for Brain Tumors

In this episode of Back to Health , Dr. Rajiv Magge discusses the latest in research and treatments for brain tumors. He gives an overview of primary and metastatic types of brain tumors and how uncommon they are for most... Read more

2024 Mar 28

Discovery Suggests New Strategy Against Follicular Lymphoma

A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine has identified important drivers of the transformation of a type of blood cancer called follicular lymphoma from a slow-growing form to the aggressive form it takes in some... Read more

2024 Mar 27

Stand Up To Cancer Dream Team Collective Seeks to Transform Care of Gastroesophageal Cancer

A collaboration between Dr. Jedd Wolchok , the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Yelena Janjigian , chief of the gastrointestinal oncology service at Memorial... Read more

Dr. Timothy Ryan Elected to National Academy of Sciences

April: Awards & Honors

Haiti Study Suggests Early-Onset Heart Failure is Prevalent Form of Heart Disease in Low-Income Countries

Pregnancy Cytokine Levels Impact Fetal Brain Development and Offspring Behavior

Solving the Riddle of the Sphingolipids in Coronary Artery Disease

Dr. Ashley Nelson Receives Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award

Dr. Adam D. Cheriff Named Chief Operating Officer of Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Organization

Gut Microbiota Acts Like an Auxiliary Liver

An Immune Powerhouse: Dr. Carl Nathan on the Potential of Interferon-γ

Message to Weill Cornell Medicine Community About Patient Safety Programs

Meet This Year’s Champions of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Beating the Drum: Pushing for More Gender Equity in Cardiovascular Care

Addressing Health Care Disparities Will Require Debunking Common Myths

Tracking a Protein’s Fleeting Shape Changes

Weill Cornell Initiative Continues to Bolster Diversity in Doctoral Programs

Infographic: Understanding Head and Neck Cancers

How a Stroke of Luck, A Few Coincidences, and Good Morning America Helped One Woman Through Leukemia and Beyond

Podcast: Latest Research and Treatments for Brain Tumors

Discovery Suggests New Strategy Against Follicular Lymphoma

Stand Up To Cancer Dream Team Collective Seeks to Transform Care of Gastroesophageal Cancer

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