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On the eve of their commencement, students from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements.

Dr. Carl Nathan, the incoming dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, has won a 2017 Heritage Healthcare Innovation Award.

NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have begun the first clinical trial in the United States that uses a small molecule to treat men with progressive prostate cancer that has spread beyond the prostate and is no longer responding to hormonal therapy.

A new study suggests that ketamine doesn’t lower levels of pain or reduce the need for pain-killing opioid drugs in the days after an operation.

Ankur Singh, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, has won a three-year, $555,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through its Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP), to further his study of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Singh’s mentor is Dr. Ari Melnick at Weill Cornell Medicine.

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

Growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neel Madhukar always assumed he would become a physician.

Neel Madhukar and Katie Gayvert are driven by similar experiences of close family members developing tumors. Now close friends, their award winning, co-authored studies focus on applying machine learning techniques to predict drug efficacy to maximize benefits for patients.

As a teenager, Jonathan Bar was required to learn first aid and CPR as a condition of earning his black belt in tae kwon do. That training set him on the path to his calling as an emergency medicine physician.

In July 2012, a young man with a history of erratic behavior opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing twelve people and injuring seventy more.

Infertility affects about 12 percent of American couples, many of whom turn to a fertility specialist after failing to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term.

A leading scientist and immunologist, Dr. Gary Koretzky has been appointed vice dean, focused on academic integration at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine, effective July 1. Dr. Carl Nathan will succeed Dr. Koretzky as dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, effective Sept. 1.

Four Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research to support their research projects.

Some 30,000 patients enrolled in NewYork Quality Care, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) of NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, will now be able to view their physician’s appointment notes in order to better understand their care.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered an innovative method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood cells from the readily available cells that line blood vessels. 

Stem cells preserve their identities after cell division by using a series of protein “bookmarks” on their genes,...

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s Commencement was as much a milestone for the 45 new physicians as it was for the institution, which celebrated graduating its 10th class.

A compound identified by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists inhibits the growth of a rare blood cancer found in people with HIV-AIDS. 

Milka Doktorova realized early into her PhD research that she might need to work in two different labs, hundreds of miles apart.

Technological advances — better breathing machines and a revolutionary surgical implant — offer relief to the rising number of patients With sleep apnea.