

Five Weill Cornell Medical Students Win Prestigious Howard Hughes Fellowships
Five Weill Cornell Medical College students have been named 2017 Medical Research Fellows from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). It’s the most HHMI fellowships awarded to Weill Cornell students since the award’s inception in 1989. The institute offers the prestigious fellowship to develop exceptional medical, veterinary and dental students into future physician-scientists. Third-year Weill Cornell medical students Sydney Ariagno, Aditi Gupta, Solomon Levin, Aaron Os


Annual Research Day Showcases Medical Student's Investigations
Can we grow human ears in the lab? Does chronic consumption of aspartame, an artificial sweetener, cause an abnormal response to sugar in some people? Can we make cancer drugs fluorescent in order to monitor their delivery to brain tumors? These are just a few of the fascinating questions investigated by the forty-nine medical students who presented posters about their research at the 14th annual Medical Student Research Day on October 14. Organized by second-year students Re