Photos: Reece Taylor Williams Weill Cornell Medicine faculty, students, alumni and members of the Giles family gathered at Griffis Faculty Club on June 17 to celebrate the life and legacy of Roscoe Conkling Giles, M.D. 1915, the first Black…
Photo credit: Aaron Joel Santos After four years leading Medicaid expansion and other key health initiatives as Louisiana’s secretary of health, Dr. Rebekah Gee (M.D. ’02) was appalled by trends showing “moms and kids were getting unhealthi…
After four years leading Medicaid expansion and other key health initiatives as Louisiana’s secretary of health, Dr. Rebekah Gee (M.D. ’02) was appalled by trends showing “moms and kids were getting unhealthier and unhealthier every year”—o…
Ruth Atherton (Ph.D. ’99, J.D.), assistant general counsel at Genentech (Roche), has been awarded the 2026 Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award of Distinction. Since 1997, the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences has pres…
Dr. David Asch (M.D. ’84), senior vice president for strategic initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and the John Morgan Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, has been awar…
Ruth Atherton (Ph.D. ’99, J.D.), assistant general counsel at Genentech (Roche), has been awarded the 2026 Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award of Distinction. Since 1997, the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences has pres…
Dr. David Asch (M.D. ’84), senior vice president for strategic initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and the John Morgan Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, has been awar…
Over 200 scientists, startup founders and partners in government and industry gathered at Uris Auditorium on April 23 for the 2026 BioInnovate Conference. The event, hosted by BioVenture eLab, part of Weill Cornell Medicine Enterprise Innov…
Why are innovation and entrepreneurship important in academic research? Since the Bayh-Dole Act was passed in 1980, permitting institutions to retain ownership of their inventions arising from federal funding, more than 200 drug treatments
Why are innovation and entrepreneurship important in academic research? Since the Bayh-Dole Act was passed in 1980, permitting institutions to retain ownership of their inventions arising from federal funding, more than 200 drug treatments
Jacob Wilson knew something had tangibly changed just six months into a clinical trial evaluating an innovative therapy that targets mitochondria, the energy producing structures inside cells. Diagnosed at 10 with Barth syndrome, an ultra-r…
A gift of $100,000 from the Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Association enabled 59 rising second-year medical students to conduct high-quality mentored research for elective credit last summer. The eight-week program, offered to studen…