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

Yoga Club (GSEC)

Yoga enthusiasts of all skill levels are welcome to join us in Yoga Club. In our weekly vinyasa-style yoga classes, you will coordinate your breath and movement while maintaining proper body alignment and building strength, endurance, flexibility, and body awareness.

Student Service Award

University Seal

The WCGS Student Service Award recognizes a WCGS student or a group of WCGS students who have distinguished themselves in service to the graduate school,  WCM, MSKCC, HSS, the larger community, or beyond.

2025

Louisa Schilling and Erica Bulzomi
Neuroscience Program
In recognition of their efforts and dedication to “Brain Day”, an immersive, educational program teaching brain awareness at NYC public elementary schools.

Faculty Awards

Image of Cornell University Plaques

2025

Yael David, PhD
Associate Member, Sloan Kettering Institute
Pharmacology Program 

2024

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

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

Julian R. Rachele Prize

Julian Rachele, PhD
Julian Rachele, PhD

                                           Julian Rachele, PhD

Named for a former Dean of the Graduate School, the Rachele Prize is the highest student award presented by the school. It is awarded to students who have published significant research in a scientific journal.

WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction Established at Weill Cornell Medicine

Igor Tulchinsky, Christopher Mason and Olivier Elemento
From left: Igor Tulchinsky, Dr. Christopher Mason and Dr. Olivier Elemento

NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) – Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC (“WorldQuant”)  and Igor Tulchinsky that will further realize the promise of precision medicine. The $5 million gift establishes a new initiative that will use predictive tools to enhance Weill Cornell Medicine’s capability to diagnose and treat a variety of illnesses, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients.

Dr. Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey and Dr. Marcus Lambert Appointed Assistant Deans of Diversity and Student Life

Elizabeth Anstey and Marcus Lambert

Dear Weill Cornell Medicine Community,

I am pleased to announce the creation of two new leadership positions to support our students and enhance our climate of diversity.  Dr. Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey and Dr. Marcus Lambert have both been appointed to the role of assistant dean of diversity and student life.  Together they will lead a revitalized effort to ensure that the needs of our diverse medical and graduate student populations are met.

Intercampus Collaboration Enables Graduate Student Scientists to Learn from One Another

Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School intercampus collaboration

Milka Doktorova realized early into her PhD research that she might need to work in two different labs, hundreds of miles apart. It was the only way she could validate simulations and examine in atomic detail the way our cell membranes function – information that could ultimately lead to developing effective medications. Until now, most studies on how medications affect membrane barriers and the proteins that live in them have been performed with artificial symmetric membranes, even though membranes in the body are asymmetric.

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson Wins Distinguished Educator Award

Carol Johnson

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior advisor for medical education and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA).

Students learn to commercialize medical technologies

Du Cheng

As an undergraduate student, Du Cheng invented a laboratory camera adapter that allowed scientists to capture images with an iPhone and view them through a microscope. Although he figured out how to manufacture his technology, Cheng, a fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medicine, needed help turning his product into a viable business.

Graduate Work Shines at 37th Annual Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium

2017 Du Vigneaud Research Symposium (DVRS)

Wan-Ying Hsieh’s research on glioblastoma, an aggressive and difficult-to-treat type of brain tumor, has yielded compelling results. A fifth-year student in the Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences in the lab of Dr. Ingo Mellinghoff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hsieh has added another piece to the puzzle of how the oncogenic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is regulated in normal and cancerous cells, expanding the emerging picture of its activity and identifying a potential new candidate for drug discovery.