Dr. Virginia Pascual, director of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Timothy Ryan has been named one of eight academic principal investigators to participate in the SPARK NS Translational Research Program, 2025 cohort.
Two Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Niroshana Anandasabapathy and Dr. Rohit Chandwani, have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for 2025.
Drs. Steven Josefowicz, Ekta Khurana and Kristen Pleil were among 400 early-career scientists and engineers to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, for the seventh consecutive year.
The award seeks to increase the number of early-stage investigators and enhance the diversity of the cancer research workforce to accelerate the fight against cancer.
Dr. Silvia Formenti, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, and Dr. Massimo Loda, chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a $4.2 million Program Project Grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This will fund the development of a vaccine that can prevent the cytomegalovirus (CMV) from being transmitted from mother to baby during pregnancy.
Dr. Margaret McNairy, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, has been selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.
