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Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, an internationally renowned physician-scientist in the field of lung disease, has been named the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s provost for medical affairs.

The Department of Anesthesiology Residency Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program for its success in creating a digital learning environment using mobile technology.

When Roy Pizzarello suddenly had a stroke, he was fortunate to get to the hospital quickly. For stroke patients, such early intervention is vital. 

NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine are among the nation’s top healthcare institutions in supporting revised vaccination guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the human papillomavirus.

Two doctors – Dr. Lewis C. Cantley, M.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’75, and Dr. Kristy Richards ’90  – are growing radically collaborative research connections between Weill Cornell Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine, adding new discoveries to the university’s long history of research that benefits animals and people. 

Researchers have developed a modular immune organoid that can replicate the anatomical structures found within lymph nodes.

For a survivor of both breast cancer and a brain aneurysm, Sandy Sherman considers her most recent diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to be “a blip on her screen.” Even though Sherman’s disease is irreversible, her steadfast optimism has helped drive research advances in pulmonary fibrosis – especially at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Fernando J. Martinez has been named chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.

As a tumor grows, the environment surrounding the cancer stiffens, as does the tumor itself. And there is another effect of that stiffening: damage to the blood vessels of the tumor.

The incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in older men is rising after reaching an all-time low in 2011.

An internal code in cellular molecules called messenger RNA predetermines how much protein they will produce.

A simple blood test may better predict which patients diagnosed with liver cancer will experience disease reoccurrence.

After being diagnosed with acute liver failure last winter, Susan Draper and her family faced a sobering reality: she needed a new liver, and a living donor was not an option.

The tumor microenvironment can determine whether cancer cells become aggressive cancer stem cells that are resistant to treatment and cause cancers to come back after therapy.

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University are exploring how genes that lead to resistance to antibiotics proliferate in the gut.

An experimental drug that blocks the activation of an immune cell component effectively prevented rejection of heart transplants in mice.

Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Anne...

A severely brain injured woman, who recovered the ability to communicate using her left eye, restored connections and function of the areas of her brain responsible for producing expressive language and responding to human speech, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

Dr. Michael Niederman has won the Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Award from the American College of Chest Physicians for a career spent advancing the treatment and management of pneumonia.

Patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of abnormal connectivity in the brain, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.