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Dr. Dan Landau, an associate professor of medicine and a member of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been named a 2020 Vallee Scholar by the Vallee Foundation.

My wife thinks she got me sick, and I think I got her sick. She was serving on a grand jury—in a room with dozens of people who had sniffles and coughs—and one afternoon she called me and said she’d been sent home with a fever and didn’t feel well. 

Tiny packets called extracellular vesicles and particles (EVPs), released by cancer and immune cells, contain specific proteins that may serve as reliable biomarkers for diagnosing early-stage cancer, according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering.

A new set of laboratory models designed to study variations in one of the most commonly mutated genes in cancer has revealed that each variation has a different effect on the colon and pancreas, according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The models also provide a new platform for screening potential therapies.

Dr. Renuka Gupta has been appointed as chief of medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. Dr. Gupta, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, began her role in July 2020.

Abnormal forms of a brain-cell protein called tau, which have long been implicated in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders, may contribute to neurodegeneration earlier than was previously understood, by interfering with the normal dynamics of blood flow in the brain.

Two distinguished Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members, Dr. Rahul Sharma and Dr. Adam Stracher, have been selected for the Crain’s 2020 Notable in Health Care in New York City list.

Weill Cornell Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 research.

Dr. Rainu Kaushal, a distinguished health services researcher, information scientist and healthcare leader, has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical research at Weill Cornell Medicine.

LGBTQ individuals battling mental health issues often confront a double stigma: prejudice and discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as the negative bias that is frequently associated with mental illness. On top of that, studies have shown that when LGBTQ patients do go for treatment, they frequently feel uncomfortable or inadequately cared for. 

Two studies from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators suggest that maternal-to-child transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is rare; however, one study found that complications after birth occurred for some mothers infected with the virus.

Physicians and public health researchers have long sounded the alarm about the high incidence of cardiovascular disease in economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods compared with more affluent ones. But in recent years, another disturbing disparity has become increasingly evident: that residents of underserved areas are also diagnosed with cancer—and die of the disease—at disproportionate rates. 

Home health care workers faced increased risks to their physical, mental and financial well-being while providing essential care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell University.

Localized radiation therapy against a tumor can trigger a beneficial immune response throughout the body by releasing DNA from mitochondria into the cytoplasm of tumor cells, according to new preclinical research by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

NewYork-Presbyterian today celebrated the opening of the NewYork-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and Newborns, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to providing exceptional, individualized care to pregnant women and their newborn babies before, during, and after childbirth—including advanced care for high-risk pregnancies and newborns who require extra support.

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

Until very recently, face masks were seldom seen in the United States outside of doctors’ offices, operating rooms and sometimes beauty salons. Now, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing a mask or face covering in public, particularly in situations where social distancing is not possible. 

Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering investigators find that most people with cancer don’t fare any worse if they get COVID-19 than other people who are hospitalized for that infection.

Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna has been appointed chief of neurological surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr. Ramakrishna, who is also the Alvina and Willis Murphy Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, will now lead the growing neurosurgery department in Brooklyn.

Dr. Sallie Permar, a physician-scientist who investigates the prevention and treatment of neonatal viral infections, and Dr. Stephen Patrick, a neonatologist focused on the impact of the opioid epidemic on pregnant women and infants, have been jointly awarded the fifth annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research.