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Menopause causes metabolic changes in the brain that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Last spring, veteran pharmaceutical executive and entrepreneur Dr. William Polvino was tapped as CEO of Bridge Medicines, a company established in October 2016 to further the development of drugs nurtured by the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute. 

Endocrinologist Jason Baker can uniquely relate to his patients: Like them, he lives with type 1 diabetes. Now, he’s doing all that he can to make a difference in the lives of his patients in New York and the developing world.

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $45.3 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program to continue funding its multi-institutional Clinical and Translational Science Center until 2022.

Dr. Michael LeVine, (PhD ’16), grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts, a city about 40 miles south of Boston. One of the oldest towns in the United States — founded in the 1630s — Taunton in recent decades has suffered through a very modern scourge: the staggering opioid epidemic that has devastated so many communities nationwide.

Internationally renowned neuro-oncologist Dr. Howard A. Fine of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian will receive a five-year, $6 million National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for brain cancer research.

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

The new Roosevelt Island campus of Cornell Tech has catalyzed a slew of innovative academic programs that will benefit not only Cornell Tech students but also students from the Ithaca campus. And those programs will deepen the symbiotic academic partnership that links Cornell’s New York state campuses, administrators say.

Though medicine has made important strides in treating cardiac patients in recent years, there’s still no cure for cardiovascular disease — a broad group of disorders that claim nearly 18 million lives around the globe annually, a number that the World Health Organization predicts will grow to almost 23.6 million by 2030.

The complex life cycle of the parasite that causes malaria has made it a difficult foe to beat. But new insights on how the parasite is transmitted from humans to the mosquitoes that spread malaria may lead to new ways to control this deadly disease.

Actress Angelina Jolie’s 2013 announcement detailing her decision to undergo a mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer likely inspired more women in English-speaking countries to do the same.

Geriatrician Dr. Karin Ouchida loves hearing people’s stories. She listens to her patients and is often amazed by their resilience—just as she felt learning the stories of her family, Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during WWII.

On a Tuesday in early June, just days before summer break, dozens of third-year medical students gathered in the Belfer Research Building to present findings from independent research projects they’d been working on since February.

Errors in the regulation of gene expression may contribute to the development of a common form of blood cancer and point to potential treatment strategies, according to a new study by scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Martha Pollack, PhD, Cornell’s 14th president, took office in April; she came from the University of Michigan, where she’d served for 17 years in several roles including dean of the School of Information and provost, a position that included overseeing the university’s medical school.

Cornell’s tradition of scholarship, research and service in New York City exemplifies the university’s land-grant mission and transcends disciplines and geographic regions, said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack during a Sept. 14 reception in honor of her inauguration as the university’s 14th president.

Dr. Olivier Elemento, a renowned computational biologist and leader in the field of computational genomics and biomedicine, has been named director of the Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Nano-sized sensors developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers can measure lipids, or fat molecules, in special compartments within live cells.

A new study finds that it isn’t just the amount of time spent sitting, but also the way in which sitting time is accumulated during the day, that can affect risk of early death.