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Jennifer Harmon's experiences as patient in the healthcare system provided her with important wisdom and now she's sharing it with Weill Cornell's doctors in training.

Dr. Conor Liston received a 2014 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for his work on how autism presents in the brain.

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar made history this year as 42 students graduated on May 6 and received their Cornell University medical degrees.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 1 - May 8.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, who was recently awarded the 2014 Mortimer D. Sackler M.D. Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology, led grand rounds on April 22 at Weill Cornell Medical College's Uris Auditorium on the topic of Rett syndrome.

Neuroscientist BJ Casey takes a maternal approach to mentoring students and fellows in her lab, including Conor Liston, who is now an assistant professor at Weill Cornell.

Banking, finance and financial experts including Sanford I. Weill, chair emeritus of the Weill Cornell, participated in a financial policy panel during Cornell University's Charter Day Weekend.

Health experts, including those from Weill Cornell, participated in the "Wellness, Fulfillment and Good Health" panel at Cornell University's Charter Day Weekend.

Dr. Lewis C. Cantley receives the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of April 24 - May 1.

Researchers have shown for the first time that a gene previously implicated in blood vessel formation during embryonic development and tumor growth also induces immune suppression during tumor development.

Sarah Bettigole is a graduate student in immunology who turns to Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher for guidance on her research, her future and being a woman in science.

Weill Cornell researchers found that unofficial physician networks may be as important to the quality and cost of care that a patient receives as any one individual doctor, hospital or medical group.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of April 17 - April 24.

Scientists have discovered an answer to why the human immune system ignores roughly 100 trillion beneficial bacteria that populate the gastrointestinal tract

In a new video series presented by Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, get an inside look at life at Weill Cornell Medical College and meet the people who shape the institution. The first season of "Inside Medicine" explores the different types of mentorship in medicine and science.

Dr. Madelon Finkel explores the public health implications of the controversial fuel-extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing in a new book.

A new study suggests that global changes in cancer cells' epigenome may explain why treatment that was at one point effective ultimately fails for about 40 percent of patients diagnosed with the most common form of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. receives the National Medical Fellowships' Excellence in Academic Medicine Award, Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori wins the Padma Shri, Weill Cornell's Headstrong Project receives the Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of April 10 - April 17.

Commentary: Realizing the promise of precision medicine hinges on the creation of robust clinical databases that compile information from a wide range of medical centers, allowing researchers and clinicians to look for patterns and trends in cancer.

Researchers trying to validate findings many hoped would lead to targeted treatments for breast cancer discovered instead that they could not be applied to further clinical work.