Department of Anesthesiology

News and Highlights

Dr. Peter Goldstein Receives NIH HEAL Funding

October 4, 2019

Dr. Peter Goldstein

Dr. Peter Goldstein, a professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project to develop a non-opioid, non-addicting medicine for a hard-to-treat form of pain called neuropathic pain.

The two-year, $1,757,406 grant was ...

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

October 1, 2019

Dr. Simon Scheuring

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...

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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...

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