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Weill Cornell Medicine investigators Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Ari Melnick, the Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology and a professor of medicine, have been awarded Outstanding Investigator Awards from the National Cancer Institute.

The NCI’s Outstanding Investigator Awards were created to support leaders in cancer research who are developing applications that may lead to major...

ApoE4, a protein linked to both Alzheimer’s disease and a form of dementia caused by damage of blood vessels in the brain, increases the risk of cognitive impairment by reducing the number and responsiveness of blood vessels in the organ, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers suggests.

The study, published Sept. 19 in Nature Communications, helps explain the connection between ApoE4 and vascular dementia — the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease — as...

Levels of air pollution defined as “good” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may still harm the lungs of cigarette smokers, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

The study, published June 13 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, shows that smokers with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition defined by obstruction to expiratory airflows that makes...

Tiny carrier molecules called nanoparticles are often attached to radiation-emitting atoms in advanced medical imaging systems such as positron emission tomography (PET). These nanoparticles, paired with the right radioactive partners, can emit their own distinctive and readily detectable radiation—often visible light, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

The findings, published in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology and online March 26, could lead to a host...