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By Beth Saulnier
Photos by Stephanie Diani

When Dr. Sandeep “Sunny” Kishore, PhD ’12, MD ’14, gave the commencement speech for the Class of 2014, he stood onstage in Carnegie Hall and confessed something: as a third-year medical student, he’d initially failed his surgical “shelf” exam, one of the rigorous tests given after each core rotation. Having resumed his MD studies after a lauded five years as a doctoral...

Study Reveals New Role for Methotrexate in Fighting Cancer

A study of the dual pathways that process the essential vitamin folate by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators unexpectedly revealed a new way the cancer drug methotrexate works and may suggest strategies to boost its cancer-killing effects.

For the study, published Nov. 29 in Cell, the investigators used genome editing and biochemical experiments to show that interfering with folate metabolism in the cell’s energy-...

"Perivascular Stromal Cells as Double Agents of Adipose Tissue Health and Disease"

December 11, 2018 - 5:00pm

Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pharmacology Fall/Winter 2018/19 Pharmacology Seminar Series Rana K. Gupta, Ph.D. Associate Professor of internal Medicine with Tenure, Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Host: Dr. James C. Lo Coffee & cookies at 3:40 PM For future seminars visit our website http://www.cornellpharmacology.org/

Pulmonary Basic & Translational Research Conference

December 14, 2018 - 3:00pm

Gordon Rubenfeld, MD, MSc FRCPC Professor of Medicine Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto will present: Classifying clouds by their shapes: the "science" of defining ICU syndromes

The Golgi Complex as a Model for Molecular Decision Making

January 17, 2019 - 1:00pm

Chris Fromme, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics Cornell U. - ITHACA Host: Dr. Frederick Maxfield Please call (646) 962-2759 for more information.