Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean emeritus of Weill Cornell Medical College, was awarded the 24th Annual Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award in Cardiovascular Research last week.
New Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Laurie Glimcher has ambitious plans for the future of the 114-year-old institution she now leads. Within 10 years, Glimcher plans to boost the medical college’s eminence, double the amount of funding it receives from the National Institute of Health and recruit 30 new “top-tier” physicians and scientists.
President David Skorton announced Wednesday that Harvard Prof. Laurie Glimcher, immunology, was named Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and its provost of medical affairs.
A prominent member of the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers established a Qatari clinic that describes homosexuality as a “behavioural disorder” and seeks to treat people who are gay.
A federal jury ordered Cornell to pay $887,714 in damages after Weill Cornell Medical College was found guilty of committing fraud. The University is currently appealing the ruling.
It has been nearly three weeks since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti, and we continue to be moved by the unfathomable devastation, by the loss of life and the dislocation of so many.