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.

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.

Weill Cornell Medicine recently received approval for EXaCT-1 by the New York State Department of Health.

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.

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.

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:

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

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.

We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural WCGS/GSK Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. The event, which will be a joint competition for Weill Cornell Graduate School and Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School students, will be held at 4pm on Nov 11, 2015 in Uris Auditorium, with a mixer to follow in the Griffis Faculty Club.