News and Highlights

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

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...

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Residents and Fellows Attend Quality Improvement Workshop

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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Vanessa Osman Awarded NIH NRSA Grant

Vanessa Osman, a pharmacology PhD student in the Hemmings lab, is the recipient of a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institutes of Health for her study of volatile anesthetics.

"Volatile anesthetics such as isoflurane are staples of modern medicine," writes Osman,"but despite their widespread clinical use their precise cellular and molecular mechanisms of action remain unclear.

In some patients, volatile anesthetics can cause the potentially fatal...

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