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In the era of COVID-19 and evolving technology, emergency care providers need to recognize that their care must extend beyond the hospital walls, says Dr. Rahul Sharma, chair of emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-author of a new commentary in NEJM Catalyst.

Visiting the College of Veterinary Medicine on Jan. 7, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said the nation should establish a network of academic medical centers focused on fighting and preventing pandemics – a proposal informed by Cornell medical and public health experts.

While the world has celebrated the arrival of highly effective vaccines against COVID-19, new work by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Oxford shows that even unrelated vaccines could help reduce the burden of the pandemic. 

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have received a two-year $500,000 grant from JDRF to evaluate an innovative approach to islet cell transplantation, an experimental treatment for difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes. The research will be conducted in mouse models of this disease.  

Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of December.

COVID-19 vaccination of expectant mothers elicits levels of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 outer “spike” protein at the time of delivery that don’t vary dramatically with the timing of vaccination during pregnancy and thus don’t justify delaying vaccination, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

The scientists, whose results are published Dec. 23 in Nature, found that a small subset of antibodies elicited by experimental and existing influenza vaccines target a site at the base, or anchor, of the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) protein—an “epitope” whose significance was not recognized in prior influenza antibody studies.

The ability of autoimmune T cells to continue fighting is dependent upon a population of stem-like T cells that perpetually resupply the stock of cells that attack the body, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and MSK researchers.

Following a sweeping effort in 2019 to address clinical care team well-being across Weill Cornell Medicine, physicians note a reduction in stress and feelings of burnout compared to previous surveys.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the hardy bacterial species that causes tuberculosis (TB), has an unexpected vulnerability that future drugs may be able to exploit.

Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine and the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 

Building on their longtime commitment to social justice, equity and diversity, Louise and Leonard Riggio have made a $5.6 million gift to Weill Cornell Medicine to establish a named scholarship for Black medical students with financial need. 

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers are using machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to shed light on genetic mutations associated with spina bifida.

Multiple changes in brain cells during the first month of embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life.

Depleting copper levels may reduce the production of energy that cancer cells need to travel and establish themselves in other parts of the body by a process referred to as metastasis.

A type of blood thinner may be more effective than aspirin at reducing the risk of recurrent stroke in a subset of stroke patients who experience problems with their hearts’ left ventricle, according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a nearly $6.5 million, four-year grant from the Department of Defense as part of a multi-institutional Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium. 

Home health care workers often suffer from poorer physical and mental health, when compared with similar low-wage frontline workers.

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified significant differences in the molecular characteristics of tumors from younger and older cancer patients across several cancer types.