News from WCM

On Feb. 19, Valerio was one of 47 students in the Class of 2022 to earn their short white coats during the annual white coat ceremony. 

Gene mutations that are thought to be very early events in the development of leukemias and other blood disorders appear to set the stage for malignancy by increasing the production of certain types of blood cells at the expense of others.

National Match Day is a milestone moment for graduating medical students. While the annual rite had a different tenor this year, the COVID-19 health crisis underscored for students in Weill Cornell Medical College’s Class of 2020 the value of their roles as physician trainees.

Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal ‘firing’...

On Khadijah Sabir’s 11th birthday—surrounded by friends and family during a party in her honor at her Brooklyn elementary school, PS 177—she received what she calls “the best gift ever.”

The fourth annual NYC Health Hackathon brought together students and faculty members from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell’s Ithaca campus and several local and national academic institutions, to develop high-tech healthcare innovations. 

Winner of a prestigious fellowship for postdocs, Dr. Adrian Jinich aims to spur health in developing countries—and inspire the next generation of STEM students.

Preclinical work suggests the targeted drug palbociclib may boost the effectiveness of chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer if the two treatments are given in the right sequence.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in kidney transplant patients may be caused by bacteria that originate in the digestive tract, according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco have adapted genome editing tools to function in a common species of intestinal bacteria. 

The short-term risk of a second stroke following an initial minor stroke is roughly 60 percent higher for black patients compared with white patients, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers.

Dr. Michael G. Stewart, an esteemed clinician and leader, has been appointed senior associate dean for international affairs and affiliations and is leading both the Office of International Affairs and the Office of Affiliations, which manages the institution’s affiliations with academic medical centers and healthcare organizations nationwide.

Gut microbes influence blood glucose levels by acting directly on the liver, not by regulating the energy expenditure of specialized fat tissues, which use glucose as fuel to create heat.

A mentoring town hall, hosted by Dean Augustine M.K. Choi, capped the celebration of National Mentoring Month.

Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida and the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, has been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

A common variation in a human gene that affects the brain’s reward processing circuit increases vulnerability to the rewarding effects of the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis in adolescent females, but not males.

When professional musician Rik Albani was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm and a leaky valve, he worried that he may not be able to play the trumpet again. 

The scope of the DNA changes that drive cancers has been illuminated as never before in a set of studies by a large international scientific team including Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. In six studies published Feb. 5 in Nature, and 18 papers in other Nature-affiliated journals, this scientific consortium reported the results from analyses of DNA from more than 2,600 biopsied tumor samples across 38 different types of cancer. 

Learning to associate distinct signals with safety has been shown by researchers to reduce fear and anxiety

An underlying problem with the production of important cellular building blocks called sphingolipids may explain why children with certain genetic risk factors develop asthma.