The award funds innovative but inherently risky research endeavors that have the potential to overturn existing scientific paradigms or create new ones.
Weill Cornell Medicine is collaborating with colleagues in Tanzania to increase the pipeline of female doctors, researchers and policymakers in health care, and focus attention on women’s health in Tanzania.
For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an important first step to control future outbreaks of a disease with more than 100,000 reported cases since the 1960s.
The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus – a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell – small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
The process of identifying promising small molecule drug candidates that target cancer checkpoints may become faster and smarter through virtual screening, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.
Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections formed by a network of neurons in the brainstem guide the fishes’ gaze.