Congratulations to Dr. Ekta Khurana on receiving an award from the Starr Cancer Consortium for the project entitled: Prostate cancer non-neuroendocrine lineage plasticity: detection using multimodal integration and immunotherapeutic targeting. Three teams led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have received awards from the Starr Cancer Consortium in its 17th and final annual grant competition. The grants will fund research on the…
AI-based tool can assist embryologists in determining both the embryo quality score and ploidy status, providing a comprehensive assessment of the embryo. Courtesy of Suraj Rajendran. A new artificial intelligence-based system can accurately assess the chromosomal status of in vitro-fertilized (IVF) embryos using only time-lapse video images of the embryos and maternal age, according to a study from investigators at Weill…
Two Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members, Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology, and Dr. Harel Weinstein, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and past chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Two Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members, Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros…
Dr. Olga Boudker, acting chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and a respected researcher in the molecular study of the brain, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. Dr. Boudker was among 120 new scientists in the United States and 30 internationally to be named to the National…
Congratulations to Ekta Khurana, Ph.D. for her appointment as the WorldQuant Foundation Research Scholar, recognizing her outstanding contributions as a scientist working on enhancing methods for early diagnosis between cancer subtypes, where choosing the right treatment means a life saved.
Congratulations to Luce Skrabanek, Ph.D. who was selected by the Weill Cornell Graduate School Awards Committee to receive the Physiology Biophysics and Systems Biology (PBSB) Teaching and Mentoring Award. The citation reads: “The award reflects your deep commitment to your program and the training of our graduate students.”
Dr. Bernice Grafstein elected as new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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