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For Dr. Ernie Esquivel, director of Weill Cornell Medical College’s internal medicine clerkship, there are few things more gratifying than watching medical students succeed in their training.

Hispanics and women are at the greatest risk for leaving surgical residency prior to completion, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

Weill Cornell Medicine celebrated a successful match, with 94 percent of the class matching to postgraduate positions at academic medical centers ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News and World Report. Students cheered, cried and clapped as they celebrated together in Griffis Faculty Lounge.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell's Ithaca campus have established a new center to better understand why health outcomes vary among demographic groups.

For Weill Cornell Medicine, 1998 was a banner year. Amid its centennial celebration, the academic medical institution renamed itself in deep appreciation for Joan and Sanford I. Weill and their exemplary leadership, launching a bright, new era of dynamic expansion. 

Getting high school students to stay inside on a warm, sunny afternoon to work on science might sound like an...

To expand access to life-saving liver transplants for those in need, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine have unveiled a new living donor liver transplant program. It performed its first such transplant with success in late January.

Weill Cornell Medicine’s BioVenture eLab, a hub of the institution’s entrepreneurial activity celebrated a milestone on Jan. 23: the official launch of its new name and the opening of its dedicated space at 1157 York Ave.

The modern concept of general anesthesia dates back to the 1840s, when doctors and dentists began giving patients ether before operations.

When the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute launched just over four years ago, nothing like it existed in academia. 

Mark Veich, an accomplished leader in institutional advancement, has been appointed vice provost for external affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine, effective Feb. 12.

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

Many successful researchers cite the influence of a mentor who inspired and advised them—and that’s especially true for Dr. Kevin O’Rourke, PhD ’17.

"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.

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.