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Weill Cornell PhD candidates featured in 2016 Forbes Edition "30 Under 30: Healthcare"

Weill Cornell Medicine doctoral candidates Kaitlyn Gayvert and Neel Madhukar have been recognized as part of Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" list, which lauds the successes of young change agents in 20 professional fields.

Gayvert and Madhukar, both enrolled in the computational biology and medicine program at Weill Cornell Medicine, were named as two of the most emerging talents younger than 30 in healthcare nationwide. Forbes honored them for using big data algorithms to discover new...

Weill Cornell Biotech Club (WCBC) networking

WCBC Networking Event

The Weill Cornell Biotech Club hosted the NYC Graduate Biotech Consortium Networking event last week. Along with NYU, Sinai, and Hunter Biotech, the evening encouraged mingling and lively conversation with attendees from 5 difference schools in the New York City area, including attendance from some industry professionals.

Be sure to check out the Weill Cornell Biotech club's website for future events.

Protein Signaling Networks Act as Biomarker for Chemotherapy Sensitivity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

An experimental chemotherapy kills leukemia cells that are abundant in proteins critical to cancer growth, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings may offer scientists a new biomarker to discern which patients with an aggressive form of the blood cancer will — or will not — respond to the treatment.

In the study, published Nov. 25 in Cell Reports, the investigators focused on a drug developed by Dr. Gabriela Chiosis at Memorial Sloan Kettering...

Biopsy tumor cells from a patient enrolled in the EXaCT-1 pilot program

New Treatment Options for Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients Revealed Through Next-Generation Sequencing Test

Weill Cornell Medicine recently received approval for EXaCT-1 by the New York State Department of Health. The test was developed by the institutions' precision medicine team. In May, the team published findings on its first 97 patients who underwent the test and found that scanning a patient's tumor to look for any genomic mutations — rather than limiting the screen to mutations commonly associated with a given patient's tumor type — worked. In 92 percent of cases in the pilot program, the...

Tumor Exosome Protein Signatures Predict Future Organ Sites of Cancer Spread

It's been a longstanding mystery — why certain types of cancers spread to particular organs in the body. Now, investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered precisely how this happens, supporting a century-old hypothesis known as the seed and soil theory of metastasis.

The culprit? Protein signatures on the membranes of small, tumor-secreted packages containing the blueprint that drives cancers to distant organs. These signatures could offer doctors a powerful new way...

Students partner with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI)

Students partner with NYSCI to provide an immersion in science

The Tri-I Outreach Committee (TOrC) is a newly formed student-run organization whose mission is to engage students from New York City and introduce them to all aspects of STEM. TOrC works closely with Rockefeller outreach and consists of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from the Tri-Institutional Campus. TOrC volunteers plan and implement several events throughout the year and work with students to inspire the next generation of future scientists.

TOrC has partnered with the...

Young Women in Bio visit Weill Cornell

Last Wednesday the Weill Cornell Women in Science (WiS) group hosted 24 high school girls for the event, “Overview of Research Science.” Students interested in a career in science were invited from all over the city to hear about life as a researcher with visitors from Bronx High School of Science, KIPP NYC Charter School, La Scuola D’Italia G. Marconi, and the Fieldston School.

WiS is a student-run group focused on science outreach to girls, mentorship for early scientists, and...

Winners of the 1st inaugural WCGS Three Minute Thesis® Competition

At yesterday's inaugural Three Minute Thesis® Competition, the event featured ten 3-minute presentations by Weill Cornell Graduate School and Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School PhD students. The superb quality of the presentations reflected the high quality of research and outstanding communication skills of current students from both institutions. Congratulations to this year's winners:

Judges' ResultsFirst Prize

Robert Frawley: "A Glimpse at a New Spinal Fusion: Using...

NOW AVAILABLE: 2015-2016 Course Offerings Catalog-2016 Course Offerings Catalog

The 2015-2016 Course Offerings Catalog is now avaialble, including Quarter III and IV courses. Students must register for courses via the LEARN system.

David Lyden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, featured in Nature Magazine

NEW YORK (October 28, 2015) — It’s been a longstanding mystery — why certain types of cancers spread to particular organs in the body. Now, investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered precisely how this happens, supporting a century-old hypothesis known as the seed and soil theory of metastasis.

The culprit? Protein signatures on the membranes of small, tumor-secreted packages containing the blueprint that drives cancers to distant organs. These signatures could offer...