News and Events

Recent News

All life forms need to continuously adapt to temperature changes to survive. Now, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators studying a bacterial protein have identified a new mechanism of sensing cold temperatures. The finding points to the possibility that this same type of mechanism exists in other organisms, including humans, and may have relevance for disorders involving faulty temperature regulation.

...

Should Medicaid Tie Drug Prices To What Other Countries Pay?

A pilot program aimed at reducing Medicaid drug spending has limitations, according to a multi-institutional research team including faculty from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Launched November 2025, the GENEROUS (GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid) program asks drug manufacturers to voluntarily reduce Medicaid’s prices to those paid by a group of seven peer nations including Canada, France, and the United Kingdom — a model known as Most Favored Nation pricing. States would then...

New Laws Cut Cannabis Arrests, but Racial Disparities Persist

While recreational cannabis laws have significantly reduced arrests for cannabis possession and sales, racial disparities in arrests still exist, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and The University of Texas at Austin. The authors suggest that recreational cannabis laws do not fully resolve underlying systemic inequities.

The findings,...

"Interrogate Epigenetic Protein-Protein Interactions with Chemical Biology Probes”

May 12, 2026 - 5:00pm

Guest Speaker: Rongsheng (Ross) Wang Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Primary Member, fox Chase Cancer Center Cancer Epigenetics Institute & Cancer Signaling and Microenvironmental College of Science and Technology Temple University Seminar Title: "Interrogate Epigenetic Protein-Protein Interactions with Chemical Biology Probes” Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 Location: Room: A-250, Anne Evans Estabrook Lecture Hall 1300 York Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10065 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM Host: Minkui Luo, Ph.D Dawid Nowak, Ph.D. Lissett Checo Administrative Specialist Department of Pharmacology Administrative Support Weill Cornell Medicine 1300 York Avenue Department of Pharmacology Room E-409 New York, N.Y. 10065 (212) 746-6250 (212) 746-8835 Email: lic2008@med.cornell.edu

Carl Nathan, M.D. Lectureship: "HIV Origins and the Path to an AIDS Vaccine" - Dr. Beatrice Hahn

May 19, 2026 - 11:00am

The Carl Nathan, M.D. Lectureship was created to recognize Dr. Carl Nathan’s extraordinary accomplishments and unwavering dedication to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology over the past 27 years. We are excited to welcome you to May's lecture, delivered by Beatrice Hahn, M.D. entitled "HIV Origins and the Path to an AIDS Vaccine". Dr. Beatrice Hahn is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. We are grateful to our generous donors for their support.

Biochemistry and Biophysics Spring Seminar Series

May 28, 2026 - 1:00pm

Tobias Walther, Ph.D. Member and Chair, Cell Biology Program; MSKCC, Enid A. Haupt Chair in Cell Biology Professor, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School, Professor of Molecular biology; WCM Investigator; HHMI

Signaling Pathways Regulating Human Oligodendrocyte Lineage Specification From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Date: Monday, May 11, 2026 - 2:00pm

Alessandro Evangelisti
Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
Major Sponsor: Dr. Lorenz Studer
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Thomas Norman and Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross

Environmental Mediation of Brain Network Dynamics in Youth with a Family History of Substance use Disorder Varies by Sex

Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 10:00am

Louisa S. Schilling
Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. Logan Grosenick
Major Sponsors: Dr. Amy Kuceyeski and Dr. Conor Liston
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Teresa Milner

Advancing Biomedical Discovery Through Multimodal Deep Learning and Trial Emulation

Date: Monday, May 18, 2026 - 11:00am

Suraj Rajendran
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM)

Chairperson: Dr. Nikolaus Schultz
Major Sponsors: Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha and Dr. Fei Wang
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Ekta Khurana and Dr. Niki Schultz

2026 NSF GRFP Awardees and Honorable Mentions

Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates the graduate students who received award offers and honorable mention recognition in the 2026 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

2026 NIH Parent F31 Program Awardees

Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates the graduate students who received award offers in the 2026 National Institutes of Health Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) program.

2025 NIH Parent F31 Program Awardees

Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates the graduate students who received award offers in the 2025 National Institutes of Health Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) program.

Recent News

Upcoming Seminars

Thesis Defenses

Student Research