VP&S researchers are rewriting the course of scientific investigation to speed up the process of discovery that will help patients with cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and other diagnoses.
CUIMC's Summer Program for Underrepresented Students (SPURS) celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2017 with one of its largest classes in the program's history.
The Brown Foundation has committed $2 million to VP&S to establish the Shirlee and Bernard Brown Glaucoma Genetics Initiative Fund within the Department of Ophthalmology.
The Avanessians Foundation and the Avanessians Family Foundation have committed $1.5 million for the establishment of an Avanessians Assistant/Associate Professorship of Cardiology.
The Ludwig Family Foundation provided a grant of $1.2 million in support of VP&S research in neurological disease, focusing on Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury.
In 2008, Louis V. Gerstner Jr. established the Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Scholars Program at VP&S, designed to cultivate the next generation of leading physician-scientists in medicine and research.
Such recognition reminds us of the truly outstanding faculty accomplishments that define the work we do every day to prove that we don't just practice medicine, we change it.
CUIMC and its collaborators, Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, and NewYork-Presbyterian, are designated as a regional medical center for All of Us.