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

Dr. Barbara Hempstead Appointed Dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Barbara Hempstead

New York (January 10, 2019)—Dr. Barbara Hempstead, a preeminent physician-scientist, educator and academic leader, has been appointed dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, effective Jan. 14. She succeeds Dr. Carl Nathan, who led the graduate school since 2017 and completed a planned two-year term.

A Kinder Cut

Alex Perez

In 2013, scientists at MIT and at UC Berkeley optimized a way to use bacterial gene sequences to cut and change DNA at precise locations. The genome-editing system, called CRISPR, is cheaper and simpler than previous methods, and it has led to breakthroughs in diagnostics and the creation of more accurate disease models. And because it can permanently modify a living organism’s DNA, CRISPR technology may one day allow physicians to treat genetic diseases—anything from congenital deafness to cancer—by correcting the mutations that cause them.

Collaborative Cancer Research Projects Awarded Grants from Starr Cancer Consortium

Cancer

Seven Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members leading multi-institutional research teams were awarded grants from The Starr Foundation's 12th Starr Cancer Consortium Grant Competition to fund their innovative cancer research projects.

IMP retreat 2012

The IMP program retreat in October 2012 was held at scenic and historic Mohonk Mountain House, and was highlighted by the first time we invited an outside speaker to give the keynote lecture. This year we were fortunate enough to have Dr. Ulrich von Andrian from Harvard Medical School join us, and give a scintillating seminar on newly described adaptive features found in natural killer cells, which are lymphocytes of the innate immune system!

IMP retreat 2013

The 2013 IMP retreat at Mohonk Mountain House was an exciting one. We had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov, who gave the keynote address. At dinner on Thursday night, the third year class entertained everyone with a performance they had prepared to welcome the first year incoming class.

Keynote

Host Defense Strategies
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD

Yale University 

IMP Awardees

 Bao Vuong, Chaudhuri Lab

Past Trainees

2010 – 2012: Victoria Schulman, Gabriel Rosenfeld, Jennifer Tyson

2011 – 2013: Stephanie Agbu, Lauretta Lacko

2012 - 2014: Aisha Abdullah, Abigail Horstmann, Virginia Teijeiro

2013 – 2015: Anya Grozhik, Jennifer Knauss

2014 – 2016: Luisirene Hernandez, Rolake Alabi, Raphael Bendriem

2015 – 2017: Josephine Belluardo, Balvir Kunar

2016 - 2018: Lissenya Argueta, Gary Dixon, Christina Kam, Maria Bustillo

2017 - 2019: Ruth Silimon, Barbara Pelham-Webb

2018 - 2020: Jossie Yashinskie, Paul Wolujewicz, Jessica Sam

Training Program Activities

Courses

Principles of Developmental Biology Course: Fall 2024 schedule

T32 Schedule

Stem Cells in Tissue Morphogenesis: Fall 2023 schedule (Rockefeller University)

Participating Faculty for Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Training Grant

Lineage Differentiation and Plasticity

Apostolou, Eftychia (Effie), PhD
Chandwani, Rohit, MD-PhD
Dahia, Chitra, PhD
Evans, Todd, PhD
Finley, Lydia, PhD
Ganesh, Karuna, MD-PhD
Hadjantonakis, Anna-Katarina, PhD
Landau, Dan A., MD-PhD
Melnick, Ari M., MD
Perry, Justin, PhD
Schietinger, Andrea, PhD
Sfeir, Agnel, PhD
Stadtfeld, Matthias, PhD
Stuhlmann, Heidi, PhD
Tammela, Tuomas, PhD

 

Signaling and Patterning

Elligibility, Application and Funding

The WCGS Training program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology is open to pre-doctoral students at Weill Cornell Medical College and The Sloan Kettering Institute who are US citizens or permanent residents and are working on their thesis projects in Developmental and/or Stem Cell Biology. Students are typically supported during years three and four in the WCGS program, with the initial appointment starting on July 1st.

Trainees