Immunologist Cynthia Leifer identifies immune cell mechanisms that sometimes go wrong, opening the door for possible new therapies for autoimmune diseases like lupus and arthritis. (Nov. 28, 2011)
Cornell and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have teamed up to offer a new shared doctoral program that will train the next generation of wildlife conservation scientists. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Collaborations between researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Ithaca campus yield results that might otherwise be impossible, and make Cornell more attractive to graduate students.
Three researchers have been awarded a five-year Transformative Research Projects Award of about $3.04 million to fight cancer by targeting the regulation of metabolic enzymes. (Sept. 21, 2011)
Researchers may have uncovered a gateway across the blood-brain barrier so that therapies to treat Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and brain cancers might be effectively delivered. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine has partnered with the Center for Teaching Excellence to launch the first subject-specific teacher training offered on campus. (Sept. 14, 2011)
By learning how the herpesvirus is contagious, College of Veterinary Medicine researchers have paved the way for future drugs. Their study is published in PNAS. (Sept. 13, 2011)
In its 2012 rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell second in engineering science/engineering physics programs and fourth among biological/agricultural engineering programs. (Sept. 13, 2011)
