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Children with infantile spasms, a rare form of epileptic seizures, should be treated with one of three recommended therapies and the use of non-standard therapies should be strongly discouraged, according to a study of their effectiveness by a Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigator and collaborating colleagues in the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium.

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

On Aug. 20, 106 students in Weill Cornell Medical College’s Class of 2025 received their short white coats during an outdoor, in-person White Coat Ceremony. 

Eating fructose appears to alter cells in the digestive tract in a way that enables it to take in more nutrients, according to a preclinical study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. 

National data indicates that about a fifth of medical students, practicing physicians and medical school faculty members in the United States are Asian American. But that proportion shrinks at the top of medicine’s academic ranks, at a cost to individuals, institutions and healthcare at-large, according to new commentary by the deans of Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

An immune cell subset called innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) protects against colorectal cancer, in part by helping to maintain a healthy dialogue between the immune system and gut microbes, according to a new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $28.5 million Martin Delaney Collaboratory grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a multi-institutional effort aimed at finding a cure for HIV.

The degree to which the brain’s wiring aligns with its patterns of activity can vary with sex and age, and may be genetic, suggests a study published by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. 

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have shown that they can record the high-speed motions of proteins while correlating their motion to function.

The autoimmune disease lupus may be triggered by a defective process in the development of red blood cells.

Dr. Geraldine McGinty, an esteemed clinical operations strategist, administrator and radiologist, has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Brian DeRubertis, a leading vascular surgeon and researcher who develops innovative approaches and surgical techniques for treating conditions affecting the circulatory system, has been named chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

A better understanding of the biology of tuberculosis (TB) infection and improved drug combinations for the disease are two areas of research in which the TB Drug Accelerator (TBDA) has made strides since its inception a decade ago.

Cornell MBA students and life science researchers will be able to immerse themselves in real-world startup projects and get the tools, training and connections to launch their own life science startups through a new certificate program.

A new treatment for advanced urothelial cancer was effective with tolerable side effects in an international, multi-center phase 2 clinical trial led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Dr. Rajesh Malik, a highly experienced vascular surgeon and health care leader, has been named chief of vascular surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

A powerful immune-suppressing molecule produced by the body may hold the key to better treatments for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, as well as for some cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Perugia.

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

A new strategy for developing vaccines against cancer showed promise in a proof-of-concept study led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Heidelberg University Hospital.