Greg Morrisett has been appointed to a second term as the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech, Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 9.
Two faculty members from Weill Cornell Medicine and one from the College of Veterinary Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Israel Cidon, former dean of the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, has joined Cornell Tech as director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have found that radiation therapy combined with two types of immunotherapy can control tumors in preclinical models of triple-negative breast cancer, which is typically resistant to immunotherapy alone.
Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of the top of the skull in infants, is caused by an abnormal excess of a previously unknown type of bone-forming stem cell, according to a preclinical study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to study whether a bilingual video game can increase the use of contraception among Black and Hispanic adolescents.
The bones that form the spine are derived from a distinct type of stem cell that secretes a protein favoring tumor metastases, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, a discovery that opens up a new line of research on spinal disorders.
