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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.

Researchers have discovered a pair of genetic mutations that drive tumor growth in patients with a deadly subtype of T-cell lymphoma.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of April 3 - April 10.

A new mathematical model can predict the size and severity of impairment a patient with brain damage will have.

Partial knee replacements are economically superior to total knee replacements in older adults, and with a few small improvements, can be an attractive option for younger patients as well.

A new class of physician assistant students received their short white coats at the annual White Coat Ceremony on March 9.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 27 - April 3.

Researchers have found that a genetic variation found in 20 percent of Americans alters the emotional processing of anxiety and fear in the brain.

Weill Cornell Medical College's state-of-the-art Belfer Research Building has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its sustainable design and green construction.

In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has been awarded the Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.

Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi wins the Castle Connolly 2015 National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 20 - March 27.

Dr. Lewis C. Cantley has won the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Award from the Gairdner Foundation for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding cancer.

The M.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. students in Weill Cornell's Class of 2015 learned where they will be doing their residency training -- the next three to seven years of their medical careers -- during national Match Day on March 20.

Weill Cornell's Music and Medicine Initiative made its debut at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Julliard on March 10 for its spring concert.

Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. wins the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Cam Patterson receives the 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 13 - March 20.

Medical students from Weill Cornell Medical College presented their original research to peers, faculty and volunteer judges during Medical Student Research Day on March 6.

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