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Weill Cornell Medical College has appointed Dr. Michael G. Stewart to the new role of vice dean for the Medical College and Dr. John P. Leonard as the new associate dean for clinical research.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first and only hospital in the five boroughs of New York City to offer women with early stage breast cancer INTRABEAM radiotherapy, an innovative radiation treatment delivered in a single dose at the time of surgery.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of June 29 - July 6.

If discovery of new antibiotics continue to falter while resistance to those currently in clinical use spread, society will soon lack effective remedies to cure infections. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Dean Laurie H. Glimcher speaks with Weill Cornell researcher Dr. Anthony Sauve, who recently discovered that high doses of a vitamin normally found in milk can have enormous implications in the fight against obesity.

The Weill Cornell Medical College community recognized three of its own June 14 for exemplary leadership in promoting diversity at the Medical College.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of June 22 - June 29.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction.

"NY Med," the eight-part television series from ABC News, chronicles the 24/7 drama of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The documentary from the award winning producers of "Hopkins" and "Boston Med," scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, July 10 at 10:00 PM/ET on ABC, takes a raw and intimate look at life inside the most famous hospital in America's largest city.

Seven pharmaceutical companies and four research institutions including Weill Cornell Medical College, working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have launched an innovative partnership that aims to speed the discovery of essential new treatments for tuberculosis (TB).

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York are investigating how patient health is impacted by communication between visiting nurses and physicians.

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Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have devised an innovative boxer-like strategy, based on the serial use of two anti-cancer drugs, to deliver a one-two punch to first weaken the defenses of multiple myeloma and then deliver the final knock-out punch to win the fight.

A transparent member of the minnow family is providing researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College with insight into human melanoma -- a form of skin cancer -- that may lead to new or repurposed drug treatments, for skin and other cancers.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center is one of six institutions selected to join the newly-founded MDS Clinical Research Consortium. The Consortium's mission is to significantly advance treatments and patient outcomes for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) through innovative research and clinical trials.

Incentive programs for physician organizations, medical groups and hospitals that dispense financial rewards for providing quality health care have the potential to exacerbate health care inequalities in poor communities compared to their affluent counterparts.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have unlocked the structure of a key protein that, when sensing certain viruses and bacteria, triggers the body's immediate immune response.

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

Dr. Sandeep Kishore, a student in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D program, has been awarded one of two 2012 Raymond W. Sarber Awards from the American Society for Microbiology. These awards, established in honor of Raymond W. Sarber for his contributions to the growth and advancement of the Society, recognize students for research excellence and potential at both the undergraduate and predoctoral levels.