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Annual Weill Department of Medicine Awards Recognize Exceptional Achievements

The Weill Department of Medicine held its annual Medicine Grand Rounds awards in June.

The Young Fellows Awards was founded by Dr. Ralph L. Nachman to encourage fellows in the Weill Department of Medicine to continue creative investigative research in internal medicine. The award recognizes outstanding scholarship. Congratulations to our 2025 awardees, first place winner Dr. John-William Sidhom, first runner up, Dr. Herman van Besien and second runner up Dr. Lasha Gogokhia.  

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Congratulations to our 2025 Fund for the Future Awardees

The Fund for the Future award supports selected junior faculty during a crucial period in their career development - the completion of their research training into the early years of their first faculty position at Weill Cornell Medicine. Backed by the generosity of donors to the Weill Department of Medicine (WDOM) and Iris Cantor Center for Women’s Health, funding is based upon academic progress and a competitive training award (such as an NIH K) application timeline within 18 months of...

A Crucial Step to Improve Care in Heart Failure: Integrating Home Health Care into Learning Health System

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Dr. Madeline Sterling, Associate Professor of Medicine and Dr. Lisa Kern, Professor of Medicine  in the Division of General Internal Medicine, emphasized in a recent viewpoint the importance of integrating home health care into the learning health system (LHS) to strengthen care delivered to patients with heart failure. Though LHS gathers data throughout the entire care process and leverages it to optimize treatments in real time, integration with home health care services remains...

New Grant May Accelerate Research into Microbiota and Human Health

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Dr. David Artis, director of the Jill Roberts Institute and the Michael Kors Professor in Immunology, along with Dr. Chun-Jun Guo, an associate professor of immunology in medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and a scientist at the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Frank Schroeder, a professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute and a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the...

Medicine Grand Rounds Spotlights Hospital Medicine Clinical Scholars Program and Professional Identity Formation

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The Hospital Medicine Clinical Scholars Program (CSP) in the Division of General Internal Medicine, a renowned faculty-led initiative with an outstanding 97% retention rate, is excited to welcome its largest-ever cohort for 2025-2026, with 11 new clinical scholars joining the program.

Pictured left to right: Drs. Justin Choi and Alice Tang

Recently highlighted during a Medicine Grand Rounds, Dr. Alice Tang, Assistant Chief for Hospital Medicine Education, Co-...

New Strategy May Enable Cancer Monitoring from Blood Tests Alone

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A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators. The method, based on whole-genome sequencing of DNA, also represents an important step toward the goal of routine blood test-based screening for early cancer detection.

In the study, published...

Head-to-Head Trial Compares Weight Loss Drugs

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A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine led by Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center and the Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research in the division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, shows tirzepatide (trade name Zepbound) promoted greater weight loss in individuals with obesity than did semaglutide (trade name Wegovy) in a 72-week clinical trial that compared the safety and efficacy of the injectable drugs. When both drugs are...

The 8th Annual Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovations Symposium Highlights Healthcare Innovation in Action

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Pictured left to right: Drs. Kenneth Goodman, Monika Safford, Fred Pelzman

The Division of General Internal Medicine’s 8th Annual Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovations Symposium opened with a call to action: the pursuit and defense of scientific knowledge is more important than ever. Dr. Robert A. Harrington, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Dr. Myles Wolf, Chair of Medicine, delivered opening remarks that underscored the importance of innovation in...

Immune Tolerance to Gut Microbes Is Initiated by a Key Bacterial Sensor

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Thousands of bacterial and other microbial species live in the human gut, supporting healthy digestion, immunity, metabolism and other functions. Precisely how these microbes are protected from immune attack has been unclear, but now a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has found that this immune “tolerance” to gut microbes depends on an ancient bacterial-sensing protein called STING—normally considered a trigger for inflammation. The surprising result could lead to new...

Dr. Warren Johnson Honored with Weill Award

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Dr. Warren Johnson, a professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Global Health, has been awarded the institution’s Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award.

Weill Cornell Medicine established the Weill Award in 2018 in honor of the institution’s preeminent benefactors, Joan and Sanford I. Weill, and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the institution’s renaming. The award, which carries a $50,000 cash prize, is presented to...

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