The Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program (Tri-I) is a joint undertaking between Weill Cornell Medicine, The Rockefeller University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Trainees complete their MD degree at Weill Cornell Medical College, and PhD training at one of the three participating graduate schools: Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences; the David Rockefeller Graduate Program in Bioscience; or the Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Tri-I guides students through a rigorous course of study that offers flexibility and unfettered access to experienced mentors in leading laboratories. An integrated curriculum reinforces the students’ identities as clinician-scientists; equally well-prepared to work in the laboratory and at the bedside, Tri-I graduates bridge the gap between clinical medicine and laboratory research. 

Learn more about the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program by watching the short video below.

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Congratulations to Tri-I alum Dr. Randy Longman who has received the NIH Director's Transformative Research Award! 
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Preethi Periyakoil, who worked with Dr. Christina Leslie at Sloan Kettering, defended her thesis, "Deep topic modeling deconvolves ell states from spatial transcriptomic profiles of the rheumatoid arthritis synovium" on September 20. Congratulations, Preethi!