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As a child, Dr. Praveen Raju and his family raised coconuts in a small village in India. He soon learned that his calling was in the United States, helping children with brain tumors. 

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine have announced that the Mortimer D. Sackler, MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology has been awarded to Dr. Takao Hensch, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School’s Boston Children’s Hospital, and professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science.

Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian have been named to the nonprofit Stand Up 2 Cancer’s Colorectal Dream Team to drive new advances in colorectal cancer research and treatment.

Former psychiatry resident Dr. Robert Accordino is named a White House fellow, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of March.

Women with a healthy body mass index (BMI) may be at risk of developing breast cancer because of enlarged fat cells in their breast tissue that trigger an inflammatory process.

Dr. Joshua Milner, an allergist and immunologist who has made key discoveries into the origin of previously unidentified disorders that affect children and families, has been awarded the second annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research.

Bridge Medicines, a pioneering drug discovery company focused on advancing promising early technologies from concept to clinic, announced today the appointment of William J. Polvino, M.D., as Chief Executive Officer.

Every patient who underwent stenting for venous sinus stenosis had significant improvement in intracranial pressure and all visual parameters. Headaches improved in most patients as well.

With a state-of-the-art mobile unit and pioneering research, Weill Cornell Medicine is at the vanguard of treating stroke patients — for whom ‘time is brain’

Combining genetic information from a patient’s tumor cells with three-dimensional cell cultures grown from these tumors and rapidly screening approved drugs can identify the best treatment approaches in patients for whom multiple therapies have failed.

One-hundred percent of Weill Cornell Medicine's graduating medical students matched to residency positions--the next three to seven years of their medical careers.

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have received two grants from the Sohn Conference Foundation to advance their investigation into how cancer spreads in children.

One out of every four children admitted to intensive care units for critical illness develops delirium.

A newly discovered genetic mutation that is found in a subtype of prostate cancer is integral to the disease’s development and growth.

Practicing medicine is for Dr. Lia Logio as much an art as it is a form of love.

A tiny tubular structure directly controls synapses, the junctions through which communication signals flow between nerve cells.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers will receive a grant from the Department of Defense to conduct an in-...

Anesthesia induces unconsciousness by changing the function of proteins that reside on the surface of a thin...

Dr. Virginia Pascual, a renowned physician-scientist specializing in pediatric rheumatology, has been appointed the founding Gale and Ira Drukier Director of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health.

The natural lifecycle of cells that line the intestine is critical to preserving stable conditions in the gut, according to new research led by a Weill Cornell Medicine investigator. The findings may lead to the development of new therapies to alleviate inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other chronic inflammatory illnesses.