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Dr. Ekta Khurana, an associate professor of systems and computational biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a two-year, $1 million Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to work with researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on an AI-based method for early detection of treatment-resistant prostate tumor subtypes.

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authentic reservoir clones

A new study has overcome a long-standing challenge—how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease difficult to cure. Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University, and collaborating institutions offer a unprecedented look into these hidden HIV‑harboring cells and show that some may be more vulnerable to immune destruction than previously believed.

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Ordinary fat cells in obese animals can be induced to burn energy stores, generating substantial heat, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

In the study, published Feb. 23 in Nature Metabolism, the researchers showed that in fat cells called white adipocytes, high levels of fatty acids from fat stores, in the presence of a key enzyme called AAC, can trigger a process that uses fat to...

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Upcoming Seminars

March 6, 2026 - 1:00pm
"The Dopamine Pedal for Feasting and Friends" Zhenggang Zhu, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, University of California San Diego
March 6, 2026 - 3:00pm
"The microbiota-derived metabolome in health and disease" Christopher Parkhurst, MD, PhD Instructor in Medicine
March 9, 2026 - 1:00pm
“Decoding Cytoplasmic mRNA Regulation in Neurons”

Thesis Defenses

Billy Lu
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 2:00pm

Billy Lu
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Pengbo Zhou
Major Sponsor: Dr. Dawid Nowak
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Bishoy Faltas and Dr. Ashley Laughney

Additional Member: Dr. Hikmat Al-Ahmadie (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Kalina Todorova Belcheva
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026 - 12:00pm

Kalina Todorova Belcheva
Cell and Developmental Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Matthias Stadtfeld
Major Sponsor: Dr. Jayanta Chaudhuri
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Morgan Huse and Dr. Thomas Vierbuchen

Kenneth Wayne Johnson
Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 - 3:00pm

Kenneth Wayne Johnson
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Logan Grosenick
Major Sponsor: Dr. Conor Liston
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Francis Lee, Dr. Jimcy Platholi, and Dr. Miklos Toth

Student Research

David Hoyos
The 2024 Hertz Fellows will address the most pressing challenges facing our nation.

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2024 NSF GRFP Awardees
Congratulations to the 2024 NSF GRFP awardees and honorable mentions from our Weill Cornell Grad School community.

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Congratulations to Aakanksha Rajiv Kapoor | PhRMA Foundation Fellowship in Drug Discovery, awarded January 2023 | BCMB Allied PhD Program | Mentored by Vivek Mittal at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Determine Mechanisms by Which Club Cell Secreted Proteins Inhibit Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells to Increase Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer

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