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

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

Cell phones treated for just 10 minutes in a new desktop-sterilization device were fully rid of germs, including those that may be responsible for common skin infections, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found in a new study. The findings, published Feb. 11 in the journal Plasma Medicine, suggest a quicker, easier, cheaper and more thorough way to clean common electronic devices, and may offer a new strategy to disinfect biomedical equipment and other objects used in health