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Dr. Scherl Receives Prestigious Rosenthal Humanitarian Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation

Crohns and Colitis Foundation "Great Gutsby" invitation

On November 12, 2020, Dr. Ellen Scherl, the Jill Roberts Professor of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, was honored with the Rosenthal Humanitarian Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.Dr. Ellen ScherlPhoto credit: Nancy Scherl As part of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s 53rd Annual Gala – known as “The Great Gutsby” – Dr. Scherl’s distinguished career and pioneering advances in IBD were celebrated in a virtual event. Her outstanding... Read More

Dr. Iliev Receives Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Dr. Iliyan IlievDr. Iliyan Iliev, Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, has received the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.The Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award (PATH) provides early-career scientists with $500,000 over five years to investigate the interplay between humans and pathogens, and how such encounters can lead to disease. Dr. Iliev, a scientist in the Jill... Read More

Dr. Fins Elected to President-Elect of the International Neuroethics Society

Dr. Joseph FinsOn November 12, 2020, Dr. Joseph J. Fins, Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, and E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine, WDOM, was elected to serve as President-Elect of the International Neuroethics Society, the world’s largest specialty society in neuroethics.In this new leadership role, Dr. Fins will be leading the International Neuroethics Society, a professional association of scientists, scholars, students, and practicing legal and... Read More

Dr. Rafii Wins NIH Outstanding Investigator Award: A New Era in Modern Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Shahin Rafii, who serves as Director of the Ansary Stem Cell Institute and as Chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine, WDOM, at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award, which will support Dr. Rafii’s project to accelerate regenerative medicine technology, provides $1 million per year (including direct and indirect costs) for seven years... Read More

Dr. Weinsaft and Dr. Kim Publish Critical Findings on Damage to the Heart’s Right Ventricle from COVID-19

Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Drs. Weinsaft and Kim have shown that an echocardiogram is a useful tool in evaluating COVID-19 patients who have damage to the heart’s right ventricle.Dr. Jonathan Weinsaft, Professor of Medicine, and Dr. Jiwon Kim, Associate Professor of Medicine, both cardiologists in the Division of Cardiology, WDOM, believe their study is first to show that damage to the heart’s right ventricle is an independent predictor of COVID-19 mortality... Read More

Study on T-Cells from Recovered COVID-19 Patients Shows Promising Results: Dr. Jones and Collaborators Publish Findings in Blood

Dr. Brad JonesDr. Brad Jones, Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, WDOM, began a collaboration several years ago involving T-cell therapy approaches to HIV that has played a key role in a breakthrough study on COVID-19.Working with investigators at Children’s National Hospital, Dr. Jones and team have shown that T-cells taken from the blood of people who recovered from a COVID-19 infection can be successfully multiplied in the lab and maintain the... Read More

The WDOM Congratulates HRSA Health Equity COVID-19 Grantees

These awards are supported by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to the Weill Cornell Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence of the Cornell Center for Health Equity.HRSA Health Equity COVID-19 GranteesDr. Christopher GonzalezHRSA Health Equity Fellow, Division of General Internal MedicineDr. Peggy Bk. LeungAssistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal MedicineDr. Anyanate G. JackAssistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of... Read More

Dr. Sonnenberg Receives ICIS-LUMINEX John R. Kettman Award for Excellence in Interferon & Cytokine Research

Dr. Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, has received the inaugural ICIS-LUMINEX John R. Kettman Award for Excellence in Interferon & Cytokine Research.The ICIS-LUMINEX John R. Kettman Award for Excellence in Interferon & Cytokine Research recognizes Dr. Sonnenberg for “establishing himself as an extramurally funded and well-respected independent investigator, and his innovative... Read More

Intercampus Team of Investigators Receive NIH Grant to Develop Method for Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection Using Cell-Free DNA

Dr. Darshana DadhaniaA team of intercampus investigators has received a $3.65 million grant from the NIH to develop an inexpensive method for accurately diagnosing urinary tract infections in kidney transplant patients by carrying out molecular profiling of cell-free DNA in urine.The intercampus team, based at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus, is headed by Dr. Darshana Dadhania, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, WDOM, and... Read More

Dr. Shen Receives NIH-funded R37 Award for a Study on Advance Care Planning at End-of-Life

Dr. Megan Johnson ShenDr. Megan Johnson Shen, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, has received an R37 award from the National Institutes of Health in support of her research on advance care planning (ACP) and end-of-life (EoL) care.There is a prevalent patient-reported need to incorporate social networking into the advance care planning process for older adults. Dr. Shen’s project will take a new approach to this need in a study that... Read More