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The Council Dinner honored Eleanor Elliott and Stephen Weiss for their commitments to the Medical College. Celebrating grand achievements in equally grand surroundings, the Spring 2005 Annual Council Dinner on June 2 invited celebrants to the Metropolitan Club on...

A crowd gathers to watch the historic cornerstone being laid into place on the south façade of the Whitney Pavilion on June 12, 1930. During the month of June, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center - the chief clinical partner...

 Dr. Ina Becker, psychiatrist, demonstrates a cross-legged pose to guide meditation. On Saturday, June 11, Weill Cornell Medical College invited guests to explore alternative pathways on the road to health - ones lit with healing energy and marked with...

Weill Medical College of Cornell University, along with The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research, helping...

Faculty from Ludwig Maximilian University, including Dr. Maximilian Reiser, Dr. Bernd Huber, and Dr. Dietrich Reinhardt, honor Dr. Hedvig Hricak (second from left) with an honorary doctorate from the University. Dr. Hedvig Hricak, professor of radiology, was recently awarded...

Appointments to Professor Mark Adkins, M.D., Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery. (Dr. Adkins is on staff at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens.) James Allison, Ph.D., Professor of Immunology in Medicine. (Dr. Allison is on staff at Memorial...

"FACES is about fostering the development of mentoring relationships between the female students and faculty members," said Dr. Debra Leonard, vice chair of laboratory medicine and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. As faculty...

The "Pap" rally: Dr. George Dangas; Dr. Lorraine Chrisomalis-Valasiadis, clinical assistant professor of OB/GYN at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center; Dr. Ioannis Zervoudakis; and Prof. Demosthenis Triantafillou unite in Greek pride at the 2005 Papanicolaou Symposium. Every year, the...

Joan May, Michael Walton, and Dr. Madelon Finkel celebrate Walton's honor as the first recipient of the May Fellowship. An anonymous $25,000 gift has helped established the Joan M. May Fellowship Fund, which will allow one Medical College student...

Dr. Estomih Mtui delivers the opening remarks at the 2005 Anatomy Memorial Service. Rabbi Mark Popovsky offers spiritual guidance and prayers in respect to the dead and their generous contributions. First-year medical students (from left) Aaron Nagiel, Rebecca Burton,...

Weill Cornell graduate student Earl Gordon, who received a du Vigneaud Award of Excellence, presents his research on potassium channels in excitable tissues to Erik Falck-Pedersen, professor of microbiology and immunology. The winners celebrated their victory at Griffis Faculty...

Researchers from Weill Cornell and Ithaca gathered at the historic New York Academy of Sciences, just off Central Park. Many researchers in distinct fields discovered mutual interests and intersecting lines of research. Rui Hai Liu (right), associate professor of...

Dr. John Savarese accepts the honor of his award and reflects upon his career at the 2005 Greenberg Award dinner. Maurice and Corinne Greenberg model the lab coats they were presented with as "honorary" physicians. Dr. John Savarese and...

Peter Meinig, Dr. Antonio Gotto, Dr. Herbert Pardes, Sanford Weill, and Kevin Brine prepare to witness the topping-out. Sanford Weill signs his name to the final steel beam, while Dr. Gotto looks on. The final steel beam rose dramatically...

Date: Tuesday, June 28 Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Location: Uris Auditorium Dr. Antonio Gotto, provost for medical affairs and dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, will give his annual presentation on the "State of the Medical College...

The Department of Medicine honored its own in a series of annual award celebrations during May and June. The following is a list of awards presented and their recipients. Finalists for the Eleventh Annual David E. Rogers Memorial Research...

First Investigational Drug to Address Underlying Cause of Diabetic Neuropathy, a Disease That Affects Half the World's Diabetics Only Academic Medical Center in Tri-State Metropolitan Area Chosen for Trial NEW YORK (June 9, 2005) — Physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell...

Computer Games Used in Conjunction with MRI Scans NEW YORK (June 8, 2005) — Each year, thousands of children from orphanages abroad are adopted by families in the United States. Yet the long-term impact of the early experiences of these...

A Pair of "Cell-Cycle Inhibitors" Work Together to Help Tumor Blood Vessels Grow Dr. David Lyden NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) — A biochemical partnership between two novel compounds called cell-cycle inhibitors is crucial to the development of blood vessels...

New Tri-Institutional Collaboration Aimed at Realizing the Potential of Stem Cell Research NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) — Three New York City biomedical research institutions — The Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) —...