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Drs. Jedd Wolchok and Taha Merghoub in a lab

2023 Dec 13

Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) Welcomes Weill Cornell Medicine to Cancer Research Consortium

San Francisco and New York — Dec. 13, 2023 — The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the largest concentration of immuno-oncology (IO) expertise in the world, announced it has added Weill Cornell Medicine to... Read more

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2023 Dec 13

Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy May Hinder Aggressive Type of Colorectal Tumor

Hard-to-detect colorectal pre-cancerous lesions known as serrated polyps, and the aggressive tumors that develop from them, depend heavily on the ramped-up production of cholesterol, according to a preclinical study from... Read more

2023 Nov 30

Awards & Honors: November 2023

Dr. John Leonard , senior associate dean for innovation and initiatives, interim chair of the Weill Department of Medicine, and the Richard T. Silver Distinguished Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology, was given the... Read more

2023 Nov 28

Weill Cornell Medicine to Open Medical Research Center at 1334 York Avenue

NEW YORK (Nov. 28, 2023) —Weill Cornell Medicine is dramatically expanding its campus and research footprint in New York City by securing five floors of 1334 York Ave., the current home of Sotheby's auction house, the... Read more

2023 Nov 21

Bishoy M. Faltas Receives Prestigious MERIT Grant

Dr. Bishoy M. Faltas, director of bladder cancer research at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Gellert Family-John P. Leonard, M.D. Research Scholar and an assistant professor of... Read more

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2023 Nov 14

Researchers Chart the Contents of Human Bone Marrow

A team at Weill Cornell Medicine has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new... Read more

2023 Nov 06

Infographic: Breast Cancer Screening

Detecting breast cancer early is critical. Going in for an annual screening gives you peace of mind knowing that if there is an issue, it gets detected as quickly as possible. Download the guide or review the infographic at... Read more

2023 Nov 03

New Radiopharmaceutical Shows Antitumor Activity in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have led a phase 1 trial of a new drug that delivers potent radiation therapy directly and specifically to cancer cells in patients with advanced prostate cancer. The clinical trial... Read more

2023 Nov 02

New Strategy Attacks Treatment-Resistant Lymphomas

A surprising mechanism that makes some cancers treatment-resistant has been discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The mechanism, which involves the shuttling of messenger RNAs (mRNAs)... Read more

Mature female doctor assisting young patient during mammogram x-ray test

2023 Oct 19

Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. The five-year relative survival rates for all stages of breast cancer combined are 91%, according to the American Cancer Society. This... Read more

Composite image of Dr. Lisa Newman and Dr. Jedd Wolchok

2023 Oct 09

Drs. Lisa Newman, Jedd D. Wolchok Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Lisa Newman , chief of the section of breast surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Dr. Jedd D. Wolchok , the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer... Read more

2023 Oct 03

Department of Defense Grant Awarded to Study Metastasis in Bladder Cancer

A Weill Cornell Medicine researcher has received a $610,000 grant from the Department of Defense to investigate the mechanisms causing DNA instability that potentially drives metastasis in bladder cancer. The research also... Read more

2023 Sep 28

Scientists Shed Light on How Stressed Cells Sequester Protein-Forming mRNAs

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have illuminated one of the important ways that cells respond to stress. The findings could also be relevant to Alzheimer’s, ALS and other diseases in which this mechanism may be... Read more

2023 Sep 25

Combination Radiation with Immunotherapy Shows Promise Against “Cold” Breast Cancer Tumors

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered that radiation therapy combined with two types of immunotherapy—one that boosts T cells, and another that boosts dendritic cells—can control tumors in preclinical models... Read more

green and red labeled cells in immunofluorescent image

2023 Sep 13

Study Reveals Why Cancer May Spread To The Spine

The vertebral bones that form the spine are derived from a distinct type of stem cell that secretes a protein favoring tumor metastases, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. The discovery opens... Read more

illustration of a transparent body with an orange stomach and a red tumor in it

2023 Aug 23

A New Targeted Treatment Shows Promise for Select Patients with Stomach Cancer

An international phase 3 clinical trial, done in participation with Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, found that a new targeted treatment called zolbetuximab, given in combination with a standard chemotherapy... Read more

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2023 Aug 23

New Research Shows How Cancer Rewires a Key Immune Pathway To Spread

A study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill Cornell Medicine discovered a new relationship between cancer cells and the immune system, and shows how cancer can selfishly hijack a... Read more

blood cells stained with Wright-Giemsa stain

2023 Aug 14

New Technique Illuminates How Abnormal RNA Splicing Leads to Disease

A technique that enables scientists to record gene mutations and patterns of gene activity in individual cells has been extended to cover RNA splicing as well, in a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New... Read more

Organoid labeled with fluorescent green and red markers

2023 Aug 10

New Gene Editing Tool Helps Zero in on Small Cancer-Linked Mutations

A change in just one letter in the code that makes up a cancer-causing gene can significantly affect how aggressive a tumor is or how well a patient with cancer responds to a particular therapy. A new, very precise gene-... Read more

Drs. Newman and Bea with fellow doctors in Africa.

2023 Aug 03

WCM Doctors Journey to Africa to Treat Breast Cancer Patients

"This work is my heart and soul," says Dr. Lisa Newman. Taking care of breast cancer patients is her passion and one that led her and her colleagues to travel nearly 5,000 miles to Africa several times a year to see patients... Read more