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Dr. Simon Scheuring Wins $6 Million NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

October 1, 2019

Dr. Simon Scheuring, a professor of physiology and biophysics in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for a project aimed at solving long-standing mysteries about the structural workings of...

Scientists Discover the Basics of how Pressure-sensing Piezo Proteins Work

September 9, 2019

Composite of a cryo-electron microscopy image showing lipid vesicles with embedded Piezo channels, and the Piezo channel structure (top). Topographic image of a single Piezo channel under force as recorded by high-speed atomic force microscopy (circle) and its lateral expansion in the membrane as a function of applied force (right). All images: Dr. Simon Scheuring.

A team of scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and The Rockefeller University has illuminated the basic...

Residents and Fellows Attend Quality Improvement Workshop

August 14, 2019

Dr. James Osorio participating in a breakout session

The department dedicated a full day of resident learning to Quality Improvement and Patient Safety education on August 7. The course, now in its fourth year, was designed to provide residents with a foundation in quality improvement (QI) methodology, and to launch resident and fellow driven QI projects.

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Dr. Simon Scheuring Wins $6 Million NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Scientists Discover the Basics of how Pressure-sensing Piezo Proteins Work

Residents and Fellows Attend Quality Improvement Workshop

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