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Dr. Conor Liston, an assistant professor of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Institute and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar.

Dr. Christine Salvatore has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine.

When Dr. Olorunseun Ogunwobi, an associate professor of biology at Hunter College and adjunct assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine needed African-American men to participate in his research on how genetics might play a role in prostate cancer disparities, he reached out to a well-known Bronx community leader to help him establish relationships with potential participants.

Dr. Choi came to the United States with his parents and three siblings when he was 12, settling in Kentucky. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and his medical degree from the University of Louisville.

New imaging methods that allow researchers to track the individual protein molecules on the surface of cells have been developed by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The results offer unprecedented insight into how cells sense and respond to their environments. 

Dr. Nicole Cruz, a senior resident in the Residency Training Program in Internal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named the National Hispanic Medical Association Resident of the Year for the northeast region.

A technique developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators can detect cancer cells surviving therapy in the most common form of leukemia in adults more sensitively and precisely than traditional microscopic observation.

Dr. Ralf Holzer, a pediatric cardiologist and expert in minimally invasive techniques to treat children and adults with congenital heart disease, has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and director of Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization at the Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children’s Health at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Atrial fibrillation is a condition that affects as many as 6.1 million Americans and is characterized by an irregular, often rapid heart rate caused by a misfiring of electrical impulses. 

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.