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Researchers Reveal How Cancer Cells Change Once They Spread to Distant Organs
February 22, 2012 Oncologists have known that in order for cancer cells to spread, they must transform themselves so they can detach from a tumor and spread to a distant organ. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have revealed critical steps in what happens next — how these cells reverse the process, morphing back into classical cancer that can now grow into a new tumor.

New Imaging Methods Show Challenges of Identifying Cognitive Abilities in Severely Brain-Injured Patients
February 13, 2012 By employing complex machine learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans, researchers at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell were able to provide evidence that a patient with a severe brain injury could, in her way, communicate accurately.

Art Benefit Raises More Than $25,000 for Student-Run Clinic
February 15, 2012 When leaders of the student-run Weill Cornell Community Clinic began organizing their January fundraiser, they expected to raise $5,000 to support patient care.

'Readers and Writers' Series Brings Author Jonathan Franzen to Weill Cornell
February 10, 2012 A few years ago, Dr. Kou Qin, now a postdoc at Weill Cornell, but then a Ph.D. candidate in pharmacology at the Medical College of Georgia, started reading bestselling author Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom," but put it down halfway through. It was too emotionally dense, he said, and he had to focus on his thesis.

Dr. Andrew Schafer Honored for Exemplary Leadership
January 10, 2012 Dr. Andrew I. Schafer will receive the Robert H. Williams, M.D., Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM), during the association's winter meeting in late February.

Dr. Glimcher Outlines Bold 10-Year Plan at Inaugural Address
January 5, 2012 Dean Laurie H. Glimcher envisions Weill Cornell Medical College as a global leader in clinical care, biomedical research and medical education within the next decade, a goal she laid out in her inaugural address Jan. 5.

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As an academic health center, we are dedicated to advancing human health and well-being around the world (the word "global" includes the U.S. in its scope). This essential part of our mission is concordant with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which, in 1948, enshrined the right of all people to health care.

Global health has long been a strength of Weill Cornell. Collaborating with local, national, and international partners, we have developed programs in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Europe, India, and elsewhere. These programs are designed to serve community needs and foster self-sufficiency through education, clinical care, research, and public policy. They include a focus on infectious diseases, which ravage the world's poor, and on the growing burden of chronic diseases.

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