Takao Hensch wins Mortimer D. Sackler, MD Prize

Takao Hensch, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School's Boston Children's Hospital, has won the Mortimer D. Sackler, MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.

Women with healthy BMI may have higher risk of breast cancer

Women with a healthy body mass index may be at risk of breast cancer because of enlarged fat cells in their breast tissue that trigger an inflammatory process, Weill Cornell Medicine research finds.

NIH allergist awarded Drukier Prize by Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Joshua Milner, an allergist and immunologist who has made key discoveries into the origin of previously unidentified disorders that affect children, has been awarded the Drukier Prize.

Brain stents improve head pressure and vision loss

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers find that brain stents successfully treat symptoms of Idiopathic intracranial hypertension such as head pressure and vision loss.

NYC tunnel-borer named for Cornell engineer, suffragist

A tunnel-boring machine that will repair New York City's Delaware Aqueduct has been named in honor of Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, Class of 1905, a suffragist civil engineer.

Grad student presents at UN panel on status of women

Anamika Goyal spoke on a panel at the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women March 13-14, an annual gathering of global leaders focusing on the status of rights of women and girls.

Three-pronged approach is key to precision medicine

Combining genetic information from tumor cells with 3-D cell cultures grown from these tumors, and rapidly screening approved drugs, can identify the best treatment approaches in patients.

Hutchinson wins National Book Critics Circle poetry award

Assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry for his 2016 collection "House of Lords and Commons."

Weill Cornell Medicine celebrates Match Day 2017

Weill Cornell Medicine celebrated one of its best Match Days ever March 17, with 100 percent of the graduating medical students matching to residency positions - the next three to seven years of their medical careers.