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Weill Cornell Medicine has received a projected $4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct a clinical trial testing whether a new imaging approach could reduce the need for biopsies to monitor prostate cancer.

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar awarded Cornell University medical degrees to 45 new doctors during the institution’s commencement ceremony May 7.

Dr. David C. Lyden received the prestigious Special Achievement Award from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles 

Dr. Virginia Pascual, director of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

A tiny chemical modification commonly found on messenger RNAs plays a surprisingly large role in how cells respond to stress, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

More than 170 Weill Cornell Medicine leaders, donors, students and alumni gathered May 1 to celebrate the completion of the institution’s new $260 million student residence—and the reveal of its official name.

The Griffis Faculty Club buzzed with excitement as doctoral students from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences presented their research, drawing peers, faculty and alumni to the 44th annual Vincent du Vigneaud Symposium on April 24.

Dr. Rahul Sharma has been recognized with the 2025 Roger Schenke Award by the American Association for Physician Leadership.

Awards, honors and achievements for the month of April.

Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. 

Three distinguished Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Matthew Greenblatt, Dr. Lishomwa Ndhlovu and Dr. Sallie Permar, have been elected to the prestigious Association of American Physicians (AAP).

A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us.

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators are developing a new test for TB that circumvents many of the current diagnostic challenges.

The annual Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day took on extra significance this year as 16 doctoral students traveled April 9 from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine to Washington, D.C. to meet with Congress members and their staff.

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy. Using yeast, the researchers reveal protein interactions that could explain how the enzyme telomerase is tightly regulated to prevent cells from dividing uncontrollably or aging prematurely.

Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine, known as the gut microbiota, can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking androgen signaling, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Nearly 200 scientists, investors and industry representatives attended Weill Cornell Medicine’s 2025 Biomedical Innovation Conference April 1, sharing their startup journeys and experiences nurturing biomedical advances into health care products and companies.

As chair, Dr. Ehrt seeks to build on the department’s already robust national and international footprint in tuberculosis research and expand its portfolio in other areas of research and innovation.

Dr. Helen Boucher, dean of Tufts University School of Medicine, delivered the Women in Medicine and Science lecture for Weill Cornell Medicine’s seventh annual Diversity Week.