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Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 6 - March 13.

Sixty participants from 14 universities and six countries gathered at Weill Cornell Medical College's Belfer Research Building on Feb. 2 for the first ever Weill Cornell Women in Global Health Symposium.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, illuminating exactly which proteins are altered in individual patients

Dr. Jim Hu has been recruited as the Ronald Lynch Chair of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and appointed director of the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Feb. 27 - March 6.

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus joins Weill Cornell Medical College to advance cancer research.

Dr. Silvia C. Formenti Appointed Chair of Radiation Oncology at WCMC and Radiation Oncologist-in-Chief at NYP/WCMC

Researchers have improved a non-surgical procedure that painlessly and effectively corrects newborn ear deformities in just two weeks.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Feb. 20 - Feb. 27.

Researchers project that between $229,800 and $338,400 would be saved by preventing just one person from contracting HIV in the United States.

NIH's $45.7 million grant to Weill Cornell to support the Tuberculosis Research Unit reflects the medical college's distinguished history in TB research.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Feb. 13 - Feb. 20.

Researchers have discovered communication networks between tumors and the surrounding microenvironment, providing new insights into how cancer spreads.

The NIH has awarded Weill Cornell up to $45.7 million to fund a research collaboration dedicated to stopping tuberculosis from becoming progressively less treatable worldwide.

Dr. Susana Morales wins the Elnora M. Rhodes Society of General Internal Medicine Service Award and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Feb. 6 - Feb. 13.

Dr. Howard Fine has been appointed director of the Brain Tumor Center and associate director for translational research in the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell, as well as chief of the Division of Neuro-Oncology in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.

A new website helps women in their 40s make an informed choice about when to start and how often to have screening mammograms.

Dr. Mark Rubin is invited to the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama and precision medicine experts, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Jan. 30 - Feb. 6.

Researchers produce the first map of microbes that call the New York City subway system home and find that most of them are harmless.

Scientists have gained new insights into the function of biological machines that scoop up glutamate, the most common neurotransmitter in the brain, from the nerve synapse.