Dr. Oleh M. Akchurin, the Rohr Family Clinical Scholar and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a 2020 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation.
A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children’s National Hospital has developed a unique pre-clinical model that enables the study of long-term HIV infection, and the testing of new therapies aimed at curing the disease.
Dr. Giovanni Manfredi, the Finbar and Marianne Kenny Professor in Clinical and Research Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, has received an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in brain disease.
Adding antibiotics to usual care does not improve outcomes for people with the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to the findings from a multi-center, phase 3 clinical trial sponsored by Weill Cornell Medicine.
Scientists have made major advances in understanding and developing treatments for many cancers by identifying genetic mutations that drive the disease. Now a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) has developed a machine learning technique for detecting other modifications to DNA that have a similar effect.
When a loved one dies, memories of that person become particularly valuable in connecting the mourners with the deceased. A new Weill Cornell Medicine online application, called Living Memory Home, offers a virtual and personal memorial space that allows mourners to deposit their memories and feelings about their loss and honor their loved one.
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar welcomed 41 new doctors into the medical profession during commencement on May 5, bringing the total number of physicians educated by the institution to 463 since its inception in 2001.
Weill Cornell Medicine has received complementary grants from Genentech and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to support a new program that aims to address socioeconomic and racial disparities and increase access to clinical trials for underserved patients with blood cancers living in Brooklyn and Queens.
The inaugural Women at Weill investment competition recently selected Intellihealth, a comprehensive medical obesity treatment platform co-founded by Dr. Katherine Saunders, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, as its first winner.
People who have experienced a cerebral hemorrhage or brain bleed have a two-fold increase in the risk of having an ischemic stroke (caused by an artery blockage) or heart attack, compared with members of the general population.
Despite perceptions that women have made significant gains in medicine, the data tells a different story, said Dr. Julie Silver, in her keynote address on April 29 for Weill Cornell Medicine’s third annual Diversity Week.
Dr. Bernice Grafstein, a renowned neuroscientist and the Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Women who receive COVID-19 mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna while in their third trimester of pregnancy generate a strong immune response and pass protective antibodies through umbilical cord blood to their babies.
As part of the Weill Cornell Medicine’s third annual Diversity Week, Dr. Robert Livingston, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, delivered the second annual Elizabeth A. Wilson-Anstey, EdD Lecture on April 26, exploring how to make “profound and sustainable change on the issue of racial equity” and why organizations still struggle to achieve it.
Weill Cornell Medicine honored more than two dozen faculty, trainees, students and staff April 26 for their outstanding service and leadership in promoting diversity at the academic medical institution.
Each year over 150,000 infants worldwide are infected with HIV in the womb, at birth, or through breastfeeding. Why transmission occurs in some cases but not others has long been a mystery, but now a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke University scientists has uncovered an important clue, with implications for how to eliminate infant HIV infections.
Patients with gynecologic cancers who have Medicaid coverage are more likely to feel increased financial distress, anxiety about their cancer and increased general anxiety during the pandemic if their annual income is less than $40,000, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
The heart damage seen in many severely ill COVID-19 patients results in part from infection-activated immune cells called macrophages, which infiltrate the heart and secrete cell-damaging chemicals, according to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientist Dr. David Lyden, whose research has led to groundbreaking discoveries about how cancer spreads, has been elected into the esteemed Association of American Physicians.
