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Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences have developed a machine-learning approach to building personalized cancer nanomedicines. These tiny drug-filled particles help cancer medicines hit their target, making them more effective and causing fewer side effects.

Weill Cornell Medicine’s BioVenture eLab, a hub of the institution’s entrepreneurial activity celebrated a milestone on Jan. 23: the official launch of its new name and the opening of its dedicated space at 1157 York Ave.

Many successful researchers cite the influence of a mentor who inspired and advised them—and that’s especially true for Dr. Kevin O’Rourke, PhD ’17.

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

An enzyme found in brain cells can break apart the precursors to plaques that accumulate in the organ and cause toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

The modern concept of general anesthesia dates back to the 1840s, when doctors and dentists began giving patients ether before operations.

When the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute launched just over four years ago, nothing like it existed in academia. 

Cancer metastasis, the migration of cells from a primary tumor to form distant tumors in the body, can be triggered by a chronic leakage of DNA within tumor cells, according to a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers.

Following major surgery, the aftercare instructions that patients need to follow can be complex.

A high-salt diet reduces resting blood flow to the brain and causes dementia in mice, according to a new study by scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Mark Veich, an accomplished leader in institutional advancement, has been appointed vice provost for external affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine, effective Feb. 12.

Immune cells that process food and bacterial antigens in the intestines control the intestinal population of fungi, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists. 

Growing up in Azerbaijan, Yusif was frequently attacked for being gay.

For physician-scientist Dr. Virginia Pascual research was a revelation. 

A key enzyme in liver cells may provide physicians with a new strategy for treating a liver disease often linked to overeating, obesity and diabetes.

"As a writer, I never felt that medicine interfered with me but rather that it was my very food and drink, the very thing that made it possible for me to write,” poet and physician Dr. William Carlos Williams reflected toward the end of his life. 

Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi has served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s provost for medical affairs since January 2017.

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

When Eric Kutscher ’18 was a sophomore in college, he went with some friends to give blood during a drive in the school gym. But he was turned away because of his sexual orientation—since at the time, federal guidelines barred donations by men who’d had sex with other men.

In Spain, philosophy is a required subject in high school; the idea is that training people to be good citizens involves the ability to question our basic beliefs and assumptions. I am the daughter of a coal miner, and my siblings and I were the first in our family to go to university.