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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Weill Cornell Medicine a $1.8 million five-year grant to fund a new post-baccalaureate research education program that aims to cultivate scientists and physician-scientists who hail from groups traditionally underrepresented in science and medicine.

Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education, or ASPiRE, will support college graduates who hope to attend professional and...

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Three Minute Thesis Competition

Three minutes and one projected slide–that’s all each graduate student had to present a big-picture research goal to a non-specialist audience in a way they could understand and appreciate.

The eleven students from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences participated in the eighth annual Three-...

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Video of New Student Residence at Weill Cornell Medicine

NEW YORK (Oct. 17, 2023)—Weill Cornell Medicine is constructing a modern new student residence that, when it opens in 2025, will expand the scope of the institution’s Upper East Side campus and nearly double the existing student residential living space.

The new $260 million, 16-story, 173,000-square-foot...

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Upcoming Seminars

Michelle M.W. Chan, Ph.D.
March 19, 2024 - 5:00pm
Department of Pharmacology Winter/Spring 2024 Seminar Course Series Michelle M.W. Chan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Lewis Sigler Institute Molecular Biology Department Princeton University Host: Dawid Nowak, Ph.D.
Dr. Jakob Nikolas Kather, M.Sc.
March 21, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Jakob Nikolas Kather, M.Sc. | "Artificial Intelligence-based Biomarkers in Precision Oncology" (IPM Seminar Series Event) Bio: Dr. Kather is a physician scientist with board certification in internal medicine. He was recently appointed professor of Clinical Artificial Intelligence at Technical University Dresden, Germany. His interdisciplinary research team is working at the interface of computer science and precision oncology. The team is guided by an interdisciplinary idea: physicians are trained in data science and researchers from computer science or technical subjects learn to identify and solve clinically relevant problems. In the last year, the team's research studies were published in Nature Medicine and Nature Cancer, among other venues. Web: www.kather.ai Twitter/X: @jnkath, @katherlab
Chris Fromme
March 21, 2024 - 1:00pm
Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Chris Fromme, Ph.D. Professor Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology and the Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics Cornell University

Thesis Defenses

Mildred J. Unti
Date: Monday, March 25, 2024 - 1:00pm

Mildred J. Unti
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Lorraine Gudas
Major Sponsor: Dr. Samie Jaffrey
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Ronald Crystal and Dr. David Scheinberg

Additional Member: Dr. Benjamin Kleaveland (Weill Cornell Medicine)

Yang (Shelley) Bai
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 10:00am

Yang (Shelley) Bai
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Charles Rudin
Major Sponsor: Dr. Vivek Mittal
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Samuel Bakhoum and Dr. Ari Melnick

Additional Member: Dr. Lukas Dow (Weill Cornell Medicine)

Kelsey L. Hopland
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 3:00pm

Kelsey L. Hopland
Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. Li Gan
Major Sponsor: Dr. Viviane Tabar
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Josef Anrather and Dr. Lorenz Studer

Student Research

Phrma Foundation Photo
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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Congratulations to Mildred Unti | Moderna Fellowship, awarded February 2023 | Pharmacology PhD Program | Mentored by Samie Jaffrey at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Creating a novel system for translation of a circular RNA”

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NSF GRFP Announcement
Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates our current graduate students who received award offers and honorable mention recognition in the 2023 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program!

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