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Dr. Ghazaleh Ashrafi, a postdoctoral associate in biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won a 2017 Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators.

The awards, which honor outstanding postdoctoral investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering and The Rockefeller University, are given annually to up to six promising postdoctoral trainees based on their research accomplishments, the impact...

New research provides insights into why the brain is so reliant on sugar to function. 

In a study published Jan. 19 in Neuron, a research team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators discovered that brain cells recruit a specific sugar, glucose, to fuel the transmission of electrical signals that enable people to think, breathe and walk. The findings suggest that the brain uses the same process to...

Dr. Igor Dikiy is just one small cog in the bigger machine that is the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences — or at least, that's how he sees it.

During his six years studying biochemistry in the graduate school, he was always more interested in looking at how smaller pieces added up to a big picture. Sometimes that meant shifting focus from a protein's specific involvement in Parkinson's disease to...

Key Protein's Double Wing-Like Crystal Structure Captures Secreted Molecules from Invading Pathogens, Activating the Body's Powerful Immune Response

NEW YORK (June 14, 2012) — Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have unlocked the structure of a key protein that, when sensing certain viruses and bacteria, triggers the body's immediate immune response.

In the journal Molecular Cell, scientists describe the double wing-like crystal structure of this key...