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Fund for the Future Awards Announced: Advancing Research Careers of Junior Faculty

The Weill Department of Medicine announces five winners who will receive Fund for the Future awards. The winners are Matthew Bendall, Ph.D., Puja Chebrolu, M.D., Jesus Maria Gomez Salinero, Ph.D., David Price, M.D., and Alexandra Racanelli, M.D., Ph.D.Due to the generosity of donors to the Department of Medicine and Iris Cantor Center for Women’s Health, the Fund for the Future award supports selected junior faculty during the crucial period of career development spanning completion of research... Read More

The Dr. Louis Wade Sullivan Diversity Department of Medicine Lectureship: Dr. Sullivan, First African American Resident at NYPH/WCM Speaks on Health Equity

Dr. Louis W. SullivanOn April 28, 2021, Dr. Louis Wade Sullivan, the first African American resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine, spoke at the WDOM’s Medicine Grand Rounds.The Dr. Louis Wade Sullivan Diversity Department of Medicine Lectureship is a newly named lecture in support of diversity and health equity. Dr. Sullivan’s lecture – “The Long Road to Health Equity in America” – was presented via Zoom and there were a record number of viewers in attendance.Dr.... Read More

Dr. Martinez Publishes Key Findings in JAMA on Treating Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Using a Novel Trial Design

Dr. Fernando MartinezDr. Fernando J. Martinez, Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, WDOM is lead author of a pivotal paper in JAMA that studied a novel trial design for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).“IPF is a rare but fatal disorder that has a prognosis worse than most cancers and, unfortunately, has very limited therapeutic options,” explains Dr. Martinez. IPF develops when the lungs become damaged or... Read More

Weill Cornell’s 3rd Annual Diversity Week: Dr. Phillips and Dr. McNairy Receive Prestigious Awards

As part of Weill Cornell’s 3rd Annual Diversity Week (April 26 - May 1, 2021), two members of the WDOM faculty received awards in recognition of their exceptional contributions to diversity at Weill Cornell Medicine: Dr. Erica Phillips and Dr. Margaret McNairy.Dr. Erica PhillipsDr. Erica Phillips, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, received the Marie Metoyer, MD Award, which recognizes faculty or alumnus of the medical college who go above and... Read More

Doctors and Students Assisting with COVID-19 Vaccine Effort to Address Hesitancy, Access

Dr. Julianne Imperato-McGinley, Director, CTSC, and Professor of Medicine, WDOM, is leading an effort to help make vaccination for COVID-19 available in trusted spaces within people’s own neighborhoods. Dr. Imperato-McGinley is working with Jeff Zhu, Managing Director, CTSC, and with other physicians, as well as Hunter College nursing students, to implement a plan to reassure and encourage people to receive a vaccine. It is estimated that 70 to 90% of the population needs to be vaccinated to... Read More

Four WDOM Faculty Receive the 2021 ASCI Council Young Physician-Scientist Award

Four faculty in the WDOM have received the ASCI Council Young Physician-Scientist Award. This prestigious award recognizes physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.WDOM recipients of the 2021 ASCI Council Young Physician-Scientist Award are:Dr. Parag GoyalDivision of General Internal MedicineDr. Jiwon KimDivision of CardiologyDr. John R. LeeDivision of Nephrology and HypertensionDr. Jyoti S. MathadDivision of... Read More

Dr. Schwartz Co-Senior Author on Pivotal Publication in Nature: Lung Pathology in COVID-19

Dr. Robert E. SchwartzDr. Robert Schwartz, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, is a co-senior author on a pivotal paper published in Nature that reports on a new technique for detailed mapping of lung pathology in COVID-19.In a collaborative study at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, investigators have implemented advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of diseased lung tissue in... Read More

COVID-19 Community Education and Empowerment Internship for Undergraduate STEM Students

With a focus on educating diverse communities about COVID-19, a new program has been launched for undergraduate STEM students who are interested in the medical and health fields. The Weill Cornell Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence is administratively hosting this program due to its history of engaging students and community partners.The Diversity Center of Excellence collaborates with various internal partners at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and community... Read More

Dr. Longman and Colleagues Publish Critical Findings on a Type of Gut Bacteria and Crohn’s Disease

Dr. Randy LongmanDr. Randy Longman, Director, Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and colleagues have published breakthrough findings in Cell Host and Microbe on a type of gut bacteria that promotes inflammation in the intestine.It was found that patients with Crohn’s disease have an overabundance of an inflammation-producing gut bacteria, Escherichia coli (AIEC). The investigators discovered that the inflammation produced in the intestine was caused by a metabolite, produced by... Read More

Dr. Cerchietti and Colleagues Publish Novel Advance on Lymphoma Tumors and their Microenvironments in Cancer Discovery

Dr. Leandro CerchiettiDr. Leandro Cerchietti and colleagues have published a paper in Cancer Discovery that has revealed a critical connection between lymphoma tumors and their microenvironments, which consist of different ecosystems of cells and treatment responsiveness.The researchers based their study on the analysis of patterns of gene activity in tumor samples taken from the lymph nodes of thousands of lymphoma patients. They found that the tumor’s microenvironment (or ecosystem) plays a... Read More