JP Pollak, co-founder and chief architect at The Commons Project Foundation, which is working on a universal vaccine app, is the guest for the fifth episode of the Startup Cornell podcast.
The grant will fund an effort to study how abnormal protein aggregates may spread from the gut to the brain to drive the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.
Jessica Rolph ’97 MBA ‘04, the 2021 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, will be one of the featured speakers for the 2021 Eclectic Convergence conference Nov. 12 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
Partnering with traditional healers improves uptake of HIV tests in rural Uganda, according to a trial by Weill Cornell Medicine and Mbarara University of Science and Technology investigators.
Two renowned biologists, May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, and Ellen Rothenberg, have been appointed to six-year terms as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
Researchers found that they could use an existing experimental drug to slow metabolism of certain aggressive B-cell lymphomas in lab-dish and animal studies.
Through a partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension, New York City’s Department for the Aging will provide child development training to volunteers in its Foster Grandparent Program.
Their projects served communities across New York, from improving soil at community farms in New York City to developing an anti-racism curriculum for Hudson Valley teens.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine sampled gut bacteria from healthy fecal microbiota transplantation donors and from recipients with ulcerative colitis, identifying the bacterial strains that correlates with effective treatment.
