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Weill Cornell Medicine has received a five-year, $12.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, for an extensive program of basic and translational research on the biology... Read more

Two Medicaid policies can interact to increase oncology clinical trial enrollment among Black and Hispanic patients, according to a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania , and... Read more

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) is an unprecedented collaboration between the country’s leading immunotherapy researchers and cancer centers. Founded in 2016 through a $250 million gift from Silicon... Read more

An 81-year-old former minor league baseball player with a history of cancer arrived at the emergency department with a fractured forearm and leg pain after a fall at home. Ironically that fracture, and the cutting-edge... Read more

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine with an international team have used liver biopsies to identify cellular and molecular markers that can potentially be used to predict whether and when pancreatic cancer will spread to... Read more

Weill Cornell Medicine received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program to develop new approaches for predicting the spread of cancer cells to the bone in men with prostate... Read more

Dr. Ashley Laughney , an assistant professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won a 2024 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. The Pershing Square Sohn Prize Cancer... Read more

Short-term space travel causes many of the same molecular and physiologic changes as long-term space missions, but most reverse within months of returning to Earth. Yet, those changes that are longer-lasting and distinct... Read more

Research led by Weill Cornell Medicine provides new evidence that most colorectal cancers begin with the loss of intestinal stem cells, even before cancer-causing genetic alterations appear. The results , published on May 29... Read more