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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.

Dr. Avery August '94 has been awarded the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Dr. Steven Gabbe '69 has been awarded the Weill Cornell Alumni Association Award of Distinction.

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.

Graduating medical student Alec Swinburne was selected by his peers to be this year's student commencement speaker.

Dr. Igor Dikiy is the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences' 2015 commencement speaker.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 15 - May 22.

Investigators say in a commentary that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is worth continued federal investment despite the challenges it faces.

Dr. Olga Boudker has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, a prestigious honor that comes with flexible, long-term research support to continue her research on how glutamate pumps work on a molecular level.

Investigators have illuminated the precise molecular steps that enable pancreatic cancer to spread to the liver -- the event that makes the most common form of the disease lethal.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 8 - May 15.

Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer have received a $15.7 million, four-year research grant from the New York State Stem Cell Science Program to study hematopoietic stem cells.

The U.S. premiere of "Playing God: The Rock Opera" challenged the audience to think critically about the complicated biomedical ethics underlying genetic advancements.

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.