In light of the incredible and largely unprecedented strains placed on medical professions, Weill Cornell Medical College offered its graduating students the opportunity to have their degrees confered early in order to join the workforce.Two MD-PhD students, Yun-Han Hannah Huang and Diana Wang, took this path and graduated on April 30, 2020.The Tri-I MD-PhD Program offers its heartiest of congratulation to these two physician-scientists.
The results of the 2020 Residency Match Day were once again overwhelmingly positive for the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD graduating students. Though this year was a unique Match Day experience, with everyone in social isolation, our students, and those across the country found ways to celebrate together.
Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross, MD, PhD, member of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD graduating class of 1982, is a co-senior author on a recent Nature Genetics paper identifying a genetic cause for a "mosaic" disorder. This heretofore poorly understood disorder causes abnormalities in the skin, brain, and beyond.
As we announced last year, the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program founded a "House System." This MD-PhD student-led initiative has the goal of fostering mentorship and community within and across the Program.
A total of ten Gateways alumni presented their research at ABRCMS. Held from November 13th through the 16th in Anaheim, California, the conference saw attendance of more than 5,000 undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers.
In a study published in Nature on October 23, Conor Liston, MD, PhD, and his collaborators present new results, using mouse models, on the effects of depleted gut microbiota on the brain.
Dr. Randy Longman, MD, PhD, (Tri-I MD-PhD graduating class of 2007) has been named as the new Director of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammator Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Preethi Periyakoil, Tri-I MD-PhD incoming class of 2019, has been named one of two recipients of the Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize from CalTech, given to alumni of that institution, from which institution she earned her BS in Computer Science in 2018.Ms. Periyakoil received the Chang Prize for her proposed project “University Support Text Line" along side one other honoree.
