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To encourage students from diverse backgrounds to join their ranks, physician-scientist communities must address the significant social, cultural and financial barriers many first-generation college students face in pursuing M.D.-Ph.D. careers, according to a new commentary authored by faculty, a student and staff in the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional M.D.–Ph.D. Program.

Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members were honored with awards for their exemplary achievements in medical research, education and care at the institution’s virtual commencement ceremony on May 20.

Dr. Marcin Imielinski and Dr. Elena Piskounova were awarded the 2021 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research.

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

Eight Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members have received Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the most awarded to any institution this year.

With in-person teaching in hospital and clinic settings suspended as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Weill Cornell Medical College swiftly designed innovative telehealth courses that enabled medical students to take part in remote patient care while also positioning them for post-pandemic careers with expanded digital healthcare options.

About 12,000 bacteria and viruses collected in a sampling from public transit systems and hospitals around the world from 2015 to 2017 had never before been identified.

Low levels of a clot-busting protein may explain why some people are at higher risk of blood-clotting disorders, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

A new federal mandate that requires Medicaid to cover clinical trial costs is an important step to increase racial and ethnic minority participation in research and improve access for low-income patients to advanced treatments.

The 2021 graduates of Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were honored in a livestreamed digital Commencement ceremony on May 20. 

Dr. Eric Huang, a professor of pathology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and physician-scientist who earned his doctorate from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1993, has been awarded the 2021 Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award of Distinction.

Dr. Peter Hotez, M.D. ’87, Ph.D., dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, has been awarded the Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Association Award of Distinction.

The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences honored the Class of 2021 for their academic achievements during a virtual convocation ceremony May 19.

Molecular characteristics detected in prostate cancers can provide clues that help predict how the disease will progress, according to new research from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Students from the Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2021 were recognized for their outstanding achievements, with the winners announced on May 17. 

A new understanding of the interaction of two proteins and their role in fat burning and storage may one day have implications for the treatment of obesity and associated diseases such as diabetes and cancer, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Dr. Oleh M. Akchurin, the Rohr Family Clinical Scholar and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a 2020 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation.

A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children’s National Hospital has developed a unique pre-clinical model that enables the study of long-term HIV infection, and the testing of new therapies aimed at curing the disease.

Dr. Giovanni Manfredi, the Finbar and Marianne Kenny Professor in Clinical and Research Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, has received an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in brain disease.

Adding antibiotics to usual care does not improve outcomes for people with the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to the findings from a multi-center, phase 3 clinical trial sponsored by Weill Cornell Medicine.