Graduate School of Medical Sciences
A partnership with the Sloan Kettering Institute

Faculty Awards

David P. Hajjar Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award

Beginning in 2022, the prestigious teaching and mentoring award was renamed the David P. Hajjar Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award. This esteemed honor recognizes a faculty member of the Weill Cornell Graduate School who has exemplified exceptional dedication to the teaching and mentorship of students, postdocs, and fellow faculty.

Recipients

2024

Jason Lewis, PhD
Member, Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
Professor, Pharmacology Program 

2023
Daniel A. Bachovchin, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology Program


2022
Mary Baylies, PhD
Member, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
Co-Director, BCMB Program
Professor, BCMB Program

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Weill Cornell Graduate School Teaching and Mentoring Award

The Weill Cornell Graduate School (WCGS) Teaching and Mentoring Award honors a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional excellence in teaching and mentoring students, postdocs, and fellow faculty.

Recipients

2021
Carl Nathan, MD
Chair, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

2020
Sabine Ehrt, PhD
Professor, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program
Co-Chair, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program

2019
Anjali M. Rajadhyaksha, PhD
Associate Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Program

2018
Yueming Li, PhD
Professor, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Programs
Member, Chemical Biology Program, SKI

2017
Mary Baylies, PhD
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program
Co-Director, BCMB Allied Graduate Programs
Member, Developmental Biology Program, SKI

2016
David Scheinberg, MD, PhD
Chair, Pharmacology Graduate Program
Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI
Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics

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Program-Specific Teaching and Mentoring Awards

The Weill Cornell Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes faculty members in our doctoral programs who have been exemplary in showing their dedication to training our first-and-second-year students during their transition to graduate school.

Recipients

2024

Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program 

  • Theresa Lu, MD, PhD 
    Member, Immunology Program, Hospital for Special Surgery 
    Co-Director, Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program 

Pharmacology Program

  • Kristen Pleil, PhD
    Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine 


2023 

Pharmacology Program

  • Anthony Sauve, PhD
    Associate Professor, Pharmacology Program


2022

BCMB Allied Program

  • Kirk Deitsch, PhD
    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine
    Co-Chair, Molecular Biology (BCMB) Program 
    Professor, BCMB Program

Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program

  • Joseph Sun, PhD 
    Member, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute 
    Co-Director, IMP Program 
    Professor, IMP Program

Neuroscience Program

  • Jonathan David Victor, M.D, PhD 
    Director of the Division of Systems Neurology and Neuroscience
    Fred Plum Professor of Neurology
    Professor of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine 
    Professor of Computation Neuroscience in Computational Biomedicine
    Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine

Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Program

  • Jason Mezey, PhD 
    Professor of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine 
    Professor, PBSB Program

Pharmacology Program

  • John Blenis, PhD
    Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor in Cancer Research
    Associate Director of Basic Science, The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
    Professor of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine 
    Director, Pharmacology Program
    Professor, Pharmacology Program


 2021

Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program

  • Alexander Rudensky, PhD
    Chairman, Immunology Program, SKI
    Director, Ludwig Center at MSK
    Co-Chair, IMP Program

Neuroscience Program

  • Anna Orr, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
    Brain and Mind Research Institute

Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Program

  • Lucy A Skrabanek, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Physiology and Biophysics
     

2020

BCMB Allied Program

  • Richard White, MD, PhD

Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program

  • Sabine Ehrt, PhD

Neuroscience Program

  • Conor Liston, MD, PhD 

Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Program

  • Scott Blanchard, PhD

Pharmacology Program

  • Daniel Heller, PhD

 

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