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From left: Dr. Roy ("Trip") Gulick, director of the Cornell Clinical Trials Unit; Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College; and Dr. Marshall Glesby, associate director of the CCTU. "Twenty Years of HIV/AIDS Research: Looking Back and...

Henry Wei receives one of the Dr. B.H. Kean Class of 1964 Fellowship awards presented by Collette Kean. Ronda Alexander receives one of the Max Kade Foundation Fellowship awards presented by Dr. Wolfgang Aulitsky. Amy Kelley receives the Marian...

Edith Penty (right) at her retirement reception on June 14, with Dr. Katherine Hajjar, chairman of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, who joined several of Ms. Penty's colleagues in giving testimonial remarks. Edith and her husband, George...

At the May 21 "Information Please" breakfast: (from left) Dr. H. Dirk Sostman, chairman of radiology; hostess Daisy Soros; Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of the Medical College; and Dr. Claudia Henschke, director of the Division of Chest Imaging in...

Weill Cornell starts its 2002-2003 Humanities and Medicine Series with "A Conversation with Bob Kerrey" on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The former U.S. senator, who is currently president of the New School University in New York City, will discuss his...

New graduate students at orientation. Students and faculty join administrators on a cruise around Manhattan. Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University welcomed 38 students for the new academic year. Orientation activities, which began on Aug. 18,...

Weill Cornell Medical College officially welcomed the students in the first-year class—the Class of 2006—at the traditional White Coat Ceremony and Opening Exercises held on Wednesday, Aug. 21. At the sixth annual White Coat Ceremony, which preceded Opening Exercises,...

New Paper in Nature Reveals Structure of "TRAF6 Signaling" and How Its Inhibition May Be Used to Treat Degenerative Bone Diseases New York, NY (August 1, 2002) — Dr. Hao Wu, a noted structural biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry...

Inhibition of Pro-Inflammatory Factor, VEGFR-1, Expressed on Adult Stem and Blood Cells, Prevents Atherosclerosis and Inflammatory Conditions That Lead to Arthritis and Cancer New York, NY (June 30, 2002) — Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City) and...

Dr. Thomas Frieden Dr. Thomas Frieden, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and acting commissioner of the NYC Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services, will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of...

At Commencement Ceremonies, Weill Medical College presented its Alumni Award of Distinction to Dr. Gerald Mandell, who received his M.D. degree in 1962. Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences presented its Alumni Award of Distinction to Dr. Bonnie Mathieson,...

Commencement 2002 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall Joint Commencement ceremonies for Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University were held on May 20 in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The Medical College...

Alternative Source of Dispensable Adult Stem Cells May Be Used Instead of Problematic Embryonic Stem Cells Ethical Issues of Embryonic Stem Cells Circumvented New York, NY (May 28, 2002) — Scientists from Weill Medical College of Cornell University have discovered...

Phase II Study Results of Celecoxib Combined with Standard Chemotherapy Presented at ASCO New York (May 21, 2002) — Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical Center today announced initial phase II study results that suggest the addition of celecoxib...

Presentation at American Society of Clinical Oncology New York, NY (May 20, 2002) —­ Investigators from Weill Medical College of Cornell University today reported encouraging interim results with a new potential therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), which affects about 53,900...