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For physician-scientist Dr. Virginia Pascual research was a revelation. 

"As a writer, I never felt that medicine interfered with me but rather that it was my very food and drink, the very thing that made it possible for me to write,” poet and physician Dr. William Carlos Williams reflected toward the end of his life. 

When Eric Kutscher ’18 was a sophomore in college, he went with some friends to give blood during a drive in the school gym. But he was turned away because of his sexual orientation—since at the time, federal guidelines barred donations by men who’d had sex with other men.

Ongoing monitoring for genetic changes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) during targeted treatment may allow clinicians to adjust patients’ treatments as the cancer evolves, according to a study in Nature Communications led by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center scientists.

President Martha E. Pollack has committed the university to a new multi-institution initiative to make public data pertaining to career outcomes for life sciences doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

Brain and Behavior, a required course for students in the fall of their second year, covers a wide range of topics—from basic neuroscience to diseases of the central nervous system and the physiology of mental illness. 

Integrating human rights education into the medical school curriculum may strengthen medical ethics with regards to physician participation in and acceptance of torture, according to the results of a new study from students and faculty from the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. 

In an age of overabundant and accessible information, when evidence-based research is devalued, how can scientists and journalists work in concert to rightfully inform the public of medical progress?

The goal of the Dean’s Inaugural Symposium on Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Academic Drug Development, hosted at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Uris Auditorium, was to highlight the resources available to investigators to help them turn their research findings into new treatments and therapies for patients.

A hospital in India founded by one of Weill Cornell Medicine’s first female alumni is a ‘transformative’ destination for today’s global health students

Last spring, veteran pharmaceutical executive and entrepreneur Dr. William Polvino was tapped as CEO of Bridge Medicines, a company established in October 2016 to further the development of drugs nurtured by the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute. 

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $45.3 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program to continue funding its multi-institutional Clinical and Translational Science Center until 2022.

Dr. Michael LeVine, (PhD ’16), grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts, a city about 40 miles south of Boston. One of the oldest towns in the United States — founded in the 1630s — Taunton in recent decades has suffered through a very modern scourge: the staggering opioid epidemic that has devastated so many communities nationwide.

The new Roosevelt Island campus of Cornell Tech has catalyzed a slew of innovative academic programs that will benefit not only Cornell Tech students but also students from the Ithaca campus. And those programs will deepen the symbiotic academic partnership that links Cornell’s New York state campuses, administrators say.

On a Tuesday in early June, just days before summer break, dozens of third-year medical students gathered in the Belfer Research Building to present findings from independent research projects they’d been working on since February.

Dr. Olaf Andersen was honored in July with the Bert I. Shapiro Award from the National Association of MD-PhD Programs for his work as director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program.

The 107 students in the Class of 2021 shared in a celebration on Aug. 15 that marked a milestone in their lives: the annual White Coat Ceremony.

Dr. Michael G. Stewart is taking on an expanded role as vice dean at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Peter N. Schlegel has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs.

A deeper understanding of the brain’s connectivity network of neurons and its relationship to the organ’s deep tissue could allow researchers to predict brain spatial patterns and recognize what processes relate to neurological disorders.