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Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely compared to their peers who don’t report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found. Physician burnout can include emotional exhaustion,...

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Six researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have received Young Investigator Awards from the Prostate Cancer Foundation. These three-year grants award $225,000 to postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty, helping to energize the field with fresh ideas. The Weill Cornell investigators are part of thirty-one researchers overall who were selected for the PCF’s Class of 2025 Young Investigators. The awardees will investigate how the disease occurs at a molecular level, search for new...

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Applying artificial intelligence techniques to cardiac ultrasound data may make it easier to identify patients with advanced heart failure, a new study has found. The study—led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian—offers the prospect of better care for many thousands of patients who may be overlooked due to the...

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Upcoming Seminars

March 31, 2026 - 1:00pm
Nuclear heterogeneity and Patterning: Decoding Cell Size Regulation in Skeletal Muscle Development and Disease Mary Baylies, PhD Member, Developmental Biology Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
March 31, 2026 - 5:00pm
PHARMACOLOGY SPECIAL MEMORIAL SEMINAR IN HONOR OF DR. STEVEN S. GROSS DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026 TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LOCATION: URIS AUDITORIUM, 1300 YORK AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10065 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY: DRS. LORRAINE J. GUDAS, TAL NURIEL & QIUYING CHEN RESEARCH SEMINAR BY: JONATHAN STAMLER, PH.D. PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER, HARRINGTON DISCOVERY INSTITUTE; DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR; ROBERT S. AND SYLVIA K. REITMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CHAIR OF CARDIOVASCULAR INNOVATION; PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND OF BIOCHEMISTRY; FOUNDING DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE MOLECULAR MEDICINE CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SYSTEM SEMINAR TITLE: "Enzymatic S-nitrosylation of Proteins" RECEPTION AFTER THE SEMINAR: LOCATION: PHARMACOLOGY CONFERENCE ROOM E-415 TIME: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
April 3, 2026 - 1:00pm
"An approach to disease-agnostic therapeutic genome editing" Sarah Pierce, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Broad Institute

Thesis Defenses

Zoe A. Kehs
Date: Friday, April 10, 2026 - 1:00pm

Zoe A. Kehs
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. David Scheinberg
Major Sponsor: Dr. Yueming Li
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Heeseon An, Lonny Levin, and Dr. Anna Orr

Student Research

Notice of 2025 NIH 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.

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Notice of 2026 PhRMA Foundation Fellowship Awards
Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates our graduate student who received an award offer in the PhRMA Foundation Fellowship program.

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Notice of Schmidt Science Fellows awardee Zhaoquan Wang
Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates our graduate student who received an award offer in the 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows program.

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