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9th Annual Research Retreat Day Addresses Global Health Disparities, Emerging Technology to Support Older Adults, and More

In a testament to its dedication to fostering a culture of collaboration and mentorship, the Weill Department of Medicine’s (WDOM) 9th annual Research Retreat Day attracted 200 faculty, residents, and postdoctoral trainees throughout its day-long schedule of lectures and poster presentations on Nov. 1, 2024. The conference is unique in its aim to promote engagement among faculty at various stages of their career through both structured Q&A sessions and informal discussions. Many of the WDOM... Read More

Dr. Laura C. Pinheiro Named Cancer Moonshot Scholar

Dr. Laura C. Pinheiro, an associate professor of health services research in medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine, has been named a Cancer Moonshot Scholar by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Pinheiro’s research program is focused on reducing health inequities for adults with cancer. The award, which carries a $3.2 million, seven-year R37 Merit grant, seeks to increase the number of early-stage investigators and enhance the diversity of the cancer research workforce to... Read More

Coming Up: Weill Department of Medicine 9th Annual Research Retreat Day

Coming up on November 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., we will present our 9th Annual Research Retreat Day!Hosted by Dr. Myles Wolf, Chair, Dr. John Leonard & Dr. Steven Lipkin: Enjoy an all-day symposium featuring poster sessions and lectures with a keynote address at 3:30 p.m.in Uris titled “Integrated Inpatient and Outpatient Care for Socioeconomically Diverse Medicare Patients at Increased Risk of Hospitalization: Results from two Randomized Trials of the Comprehensive Care Program” by Dr... Read More

Dr. Randy Longman Receives NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award

Dr. Randy Longman, director of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, recently received the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to continue his work developing the tools needed to understand how the gut microbiome drives metabolic pathways. The award will provide about $5.6 million over five years to Dr. Longman and his co-principal investigators, Dr. Chun-Jun Guo, Assistant... Read More

Study Reveals How COVID-19 Infection Can Cause or Worsen Diabetes

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, including co-corresponding author Dr. Robert Schwartz, an associate professor of medicine in the division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, have used a cutting-edge model system to uncover the mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, induces new cases of diabetes, and worsens complications in people who already have it. The team found that viral exposure activates immune cells that in turn destroy beta (β) cells, the pancreatic... Read More

New Grant Furthers Research into Precision Treatments for Bladder Cancer

Dr. Bishoy FaltasDr. Bishoy M. Faltas, Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell and Development Biology, in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Gellert Family- John P. Leonard, M.D. Research Scholar, and Chief Research Officer of Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, recently received a 2024 Research Innovation Award from the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) to support his project using advanced mathematical models, known as bio-digital avatars, to synthesize data from lab... Read More

Study Finds Potential Link Between DNA Markers and Aging Process

Drs. Lishomwa Ndhlovu and Dr. Michael Corley in the Division of Infectious Diseases, along with the epigenetics company TruDiagnostic, have uncovered DNA markers associated with retroelements, remnants of ancient viral genetic material, in our genes that act as highly accurate epigenetic clocks predicting chronological age. The results support the idea that certain retroelements in the human genome may be involved in aging.Dr. Michael Corley and Dr. Lishomwa NdhlovuRetroelements have been known... Read More

Dr. Jane Seley Receives Prestigious ADCES Award

Jane J. Seley, DNP, MPH, MSN, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, recently received the Allene Von Son Distinguished Service Award during the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) annual meeting in New Orleans on Aug. 9, 2024. A Diabetes Nurse Practitioner and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Dr. Seley co-presented in multiple presentations including F22 - Make Our Dreams Come True for... Read More

New NIH Grant Will Support Key Lymphoma Research

With new NIH funding, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators will explore how alterations to the packaging of DNA that affect gene expression, known as epigenetic changes, influence the trajectory of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. Credit: ShutterstockA new $12.4 million investigator-initiated Program Project grant co-led by Dr. Leandro Cerchietti, the Richard A. Stratton Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, will support a collaborative, multi-faceted focus on ... Read More

New Research Finds Lasting Performance for Wireless Pacemaker

Dr. James IpA research team including Dr. James Ip, professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Cardiology, has found that a dual-chamber wireless pacemaker provides reliable performance over three months, bolstering evidence for this new pacemaker option, according to results from a multi-center, international clinical trial recently published in Circulation.The results showed that the two tiny pieces of this wireless pacemaker system reliably communicate, achieving the goal of... Read More