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A $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation has established a new research and training program—called Cellular and Molecular Biophysics of Signal Transduction—to be conducted jointly by Weill Medical College and Cornell University in Ithaca. Through this new...

Dr. Mary Charlson (medicine) was interviewed by The Resident community newspaper on New York Weill Cornell's approach to complementary medicine. Drs. Andrew Dannenberg and Mark Pochapin (medicine) were interviewed by WNBC-TV on gene therapy (Cox-2 inhibitor) to treat colorectal...

The reception area of the Breast Center. (Staff shown are Lorretta Stucchio, Lenear Gibbs, Shelley Cutrone and Bettina Di Franco). The reception area of Cornell Medical Imaging. (Staff shown are James Powell, standing at left, operations manager; James Simms,...

Dr. Shirley Tilghman The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hosting Dr. Shirley Tilghman of Princeton University as the 2001 Stubenbord Visiting Professor at Weill Medical College. Dr. Tilghman is the Howard A. Prior Professor of Life Sciences, director...

Dr. Claudia Henschke examines CT lung scans. Dr. Claudia Henschke, professor of radiology and chief of the Division of Chest Imaging, will present the winter lecture sponsored by the Medical College's AOA chapter on March 14 (5 p.m. in...

Dr. Barbara Bartlik (psychiatry) was interviewed by WINS radio on female sexual dysfunction. Dr. Sandra Belmont (ophthalmology) was interviewed by Imus in the Morning (WFAN radio) on laser vision correction. Drs. Mary Charlson and Mitchell Gaynor (medicine), Dr. Lorraine...

Among those who gave blood on Valentine's Day were Carolyn Hutter (left), Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences office; Yu Chen, MD-PhD student; and radiology resident Dr. Lauren Ernberg (in background). Many members of the Weill Cornell community—with or...

Dr. Steven Schroeder presents his lecture on "Challenges for Health and Health Care in the 21st Century" at the Dean's Hour on Feb. 14. At right is his host, Dr. Alvin Mushlin, chairman of the Department of Public Health....

Dr. Lisa Staiano-Coico (center), senior associate dean for research, with the visitors from Sweden touring the Whitney Pavilion Research Laboratories. Weill Cornell and the Hospital were host to a delegation of visitors from Sweden's renowned Karolinska Institute and the...

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, who has been serving as associate dean for curricular affairs and director of the Office of Curriculum Development, has been appointed senior associate dean for education, succeeding Dr. Daniel Alonso, who has stepped...

Dr. Robert Allan (medicine and psychiatry) was interviewed by the Monitor on Psychology, a magazine of the American Psychiatric Association, about the role of psychology in cardiac care. Drs. Mary Charlson and Mitchell Gaynor (medicine) were interviewed by Reuters...

Adele Lerner (center) with Dr. Robert Braude, the Loeb Librarian at the Medical College, and Kathleen Burke, Esq., vice president–board relations, secretary, and counsel for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, who serves as Hospital liaison to the Archives. Adele Lerner, who served...

Dr. Bruce Ballard, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor of clinical psychiatry, has been selected as a recipient of the 11th annual Nancy C. A. Roeske, M.D., Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education. The...