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December 4, 2024
The New York Pathological Society (NYPS), one of the country’s oldest societies devoted to pathology and various associated sciences, and its current Vice President, Dr. Sanjay Patel of the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, recently hosted a Fall Mini-Symposium at WCM.
November 25, 2024
The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus—a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell—small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were elucidated in yeast, a model organism famous for making bread and beer and yet surprisingly similar to humans on the cellular level.
November 20, 2024
An enzyme called EZH2 has an unexpected role in driving aggressive tumor growth in treatment-resistant prostate cancers, according to a new study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. The results could potentially lead to new therapies for patients with limited options and add to the significant progress the teams have made in understanding how advanced prostate cancer develops resistance to treatments that target androgen receptors.
October 30, 2024
Three teams led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have received awards from the Starr Cancer Consortium in its 17th and final annual grant competition. The grants will fund research on the deep mechanisms of common cancers and related treatment strategies.
October 22, 2024
Dr. Massimo Loda, chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the David D. Thompson Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.One of the most prestigious honors in health and medicine, the academy recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and made major contributions to advancing the medical sciences, health care and public health.
October 18, 2024
It may soon be possible to determine which patients with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma would benefit from immunotherapy, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
September 17, 2024
New research from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine presents significant advancements in breast cancer prognostication. The study, published in Breast Cancer Research and led by 
August 16, 2024
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a five-year, $12.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, for an extensive program of basic and translational research on the biology of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common form of lymphoma.
July 9, 2024
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have developed and tested new artificial intelligence (AI) tools tailored to digital pathology—a rapidly growing field that uses high-resolution digital images created from tissue samples to help diagnose disease and guide treatment.
June 27, 2024
Weill Cornell Medicine received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program to develop new approaches for predicting the spread of cancer cells to the bone in men with prostate cancer, using tumor samples taken at early stages of the disease.

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