Six young scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medical College have been named the inaugural winners of a new prize established to recognize postdoctoral investigators in the life sciences.
Ovarian cancer shuts down immune system cells that would otherwise act as a first line of defense against the deadly tumor, but a therapy that restores the cells' disease-fighting abilities could provide a powerful new strategy to attack the cancer.
Weill Cornell Medical College and Cellectis have entered into a strategic translational research alliance to accelerate the development of a targeted immunotherapy for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia, a deadly blood cancer.
Systematic differences have emerged between physicians who consistently participated in programs that incentived the adoption of electronic health records and those who didn't.
Researchers have discovered that "good" cholesterol in blood also carries a protein that powerfully regulates immune function, and together they play an important role in preventing inflammation in the body.
A Weill Cornell physician and his patient participated in the American Heart Association's Hands-Only CPR Keep the Beat Challenge. The event, hosted June 4 in Times Square, was organized to boost the number of people trained in CPR.
Despite FDA warnings that a synthetic mesh used to treat a weakening of the female pelvis's walls can cause infection, pain, and disease recurrence, surgeons are increasing their use of the device.
Nearly 300 students celebrated a milestone on May 28: graduating from Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, addressed the Class of 2015 during commencement on May 28 at Carnegie Hall.
Scientists can now efficiently generate large numbers of rare cells in the network that pushes the heart's chambers to contract, which could be a first step toward using a person's own cells to repair an irregular heartbeat.
A research team at Weill Cornell Medical College showed that a more global look at the body using next-generation sequencing can offer new insights in patients with a treatment-resistant disease.
On the eve of their commencement, students from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements.
Although hospice does much to ease the physical and emotional burdens imposed on a caregiving spouse when their partner is terminally ill, this type of care could be further strengthened to attend to the psychological needs of family caregivers after their loved ones have died.
A new model developed by a Weill Cornell Medical College team offers researchers a better way to screen and test drugs, immunotherapies and tumor vaccines for colon cancer.
