NIH-funded research to address rising male infertility

Paula Cohen, associate vice provost for life sciences, is leading an eight-year, $8 million, multi-institution grant to untangle the complex genetic rulebook for how sperm develops.

Multidisciplinary partnership aims to cure people with HIV

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $26.5 million grant to a group that includes Weill Cornell Medicine, which aims to both silence and permanently remove HIV from the body.

NIH grant aims to reveal how smoking causes disease

A team including researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine has received a five-year, $12.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to validate discoveries that may provide answers about lung diseases.

Serendipity opens new path toward osteoporosis treatment

A cellular protein whose normal function appears to suppress bone formation may be a potential new target for treating osteoporosis, according to a collaborative study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers.

Cornell Bowers CIS welcomes 13 faculty members

The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is welcoming 13 new faculty members in the departments of Computer Science, Information Science and Statistics and Data Science. Collectively, their work ranges from developing robots that assist people with mobility limitations to using computational tools to study inequality and graphical models to solve real-world problems.   

Around Cornell

Long commutes, home crowding tied to COVID transmission

Neighborhoods that had populations with predominantly longer commute times to work – from about 40 minutes to an hour – were more likely to become infectious disease hotspots, according to new research.

Recommended treatments are best for infantile spasms

Children with infantile spasms, a rare form of epileptic seizures, should be treated with one of three recommended therapies and the use of nonstandard therapies should be strongly discouraged, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Academic Integration efforts lead to $33M in grants

Seed grants and symposia based on themes from the Office of Academic Integration have bridged researchers from the Ithaca and New York campuses and have brought a high return on investment to Cornell. 

Weill Cornell awarded $28.5M grant to lead HIV cure research

The grant will fund a Weill Cornell Medicine-based program known as REACH: Research Enterprise to Advance a Cure for HIV, which was formed in late 2020.