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Rows of poster boards filled the Griffis Faculty Club at Weill Cornell Medicine, showcasing research ranging from cancer immunology and microbiome science to the emerging field of space biology. Standing beside them, graduate students explained months of work in a matter of minutes, fielding questions from judges, faculty and peers.

The 45th annual Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium held on April 16 had a record number of 153 abstracts submitted this year, including...

Dr. Olga Boudker, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The academy, one of the United States’ oldest honorary societies, was chartered during the American Revolutionary War to recognize Americans with significant accomplishments, and...

Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral of decline driven by fuel shortages, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings offer a potential explanation for the degeneration of this neuron population in Parkinson’s disease.

In the study, published Dec. 5 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Dr. Timothy Ryan, the Tri-Institutional Professor of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named one of eight academic principal investigators to participate in the SPARK NS...