Many of health care’s toughest challenges—from delayed diagnoses to inefficient clinical workflows—are waiting for creative solutions. At the Cornell Health AI Hackathon, student teams spent an intense weekend racing to build some of them.
Dr. Pinkal Desai earns Siegel Faculty Development Award!
June 15, 2026
Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members were recently honored with awards for their exemplary achievements in medical research, education and care May 13-14 during Weill Cornell Medicine’s commencement activities.
Dr. Pinkal Desai, an Englnder Institute for Precision Medicine member, was awarded the Jeanne and Herbert Siegel Faculty Development Award. The prize recognizes an early-career faculty member for exemplary clinical and research contributions, as well as teaching and mentoring medical students.
Additional awards:
A breakthrough single-cell method for mapping DNA-protein interactions
June 14, 2026
A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA-binding sites of transcription factors and other regulatory proteins that control gene activity, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center.
With key advantages over methods currently in use, the technology is expected to be a powerful addition to biologists’ toolkit for studying cells in health and disease.
May 2026 EIPM Director's Monthly Memo
May 11, 2026
Dear Friends & Members of the Englander Institute,
Panel: AI to Advance Medicine--From Research to Practice
May 10, 2026
On April 28, EIPM Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. joined an all-star panel of Weill Cornell Medicine experts for “AI to Advance Medicine: From Research to Practice,” moderated by Fei Wang, Ph.D., the Associate Dean of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Weill Cornell.
WCM Investigators Empowering Cancer Researchers with AI
April 13, 2026
A team of Weill Cornell Medicine investigators is working to cross-train the next generation of cancer researchers in cancer biology and the use of artificial intelligence tools for research.
Collaboration Key to Tackling Rare Blood Cancers
April 9, 2026
Personalized approaches have dramatically improved outcomes for many patients with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas—blood cancers that arise in immune cells called B cells—yet the same is not true for patients with more rare lymphoma types that originate in immune cells called T cells.
American Cancer Society Grant to Fund Research on Urinary Tract Cancer Therapies
April 7, 2026
A $1 million Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society will help a multi-institution team led by Dr. Bishoy Faltas, associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, to develop new therapy combinations for hard-to-treat urinary tract cancers.
April 2026 EIPM Director's Newsletter
April 2, 2026
Dear Friends & Members of the Englander Institute,