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In the Media

The Discoveries Campaign is making headlines around the globe. Read about our exciting — and groundbreaking — Campaign here.

• Research Building Named in Honor of Longtime Weill Cornell Supporters
• Leading Neuroscientist Dr. Steven Marc Paul to Direct Appel Institute for Alzheimer's Research at Weill Cornell Medical College
• Dean Gotto Gives Weill Cornell's Annual State of the Medical College Address
• Weill Cornell Medical College breaks ground for new Belfer Research Building. Discoveries Campaign raises $1 billion in record time.
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  Watch video from the Groundbreaking Ceremony
• In 2009, Joan and Sanford I. Weill create the Weill Challenge Fund, which matches every $1.50 gift for the new Belfer Research Building with a $1 gift.
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• Ronald Perelman gives $25 million to establish the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine in 2008.
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• Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400 million in 2007. The largest of the gifts, $250 million, was made by Joan and Sanford I. Weill.
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  Watch video from the Milestone Press Conference
• Weill Cornell Medical College launches the Discoveries Campaign in 2006.
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• Helen and Bob Appel pledged $15 million to support Alzheimer's disease in 2006. Their total giving now tops $30 million.
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  Watch video from Appel Event

Some Recent Breakthroughs

• In 2010, stem cell researchers found a new way to generate abundant functional blood vessel cells from human stem cells.
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• Weill Cornell scientists pioneered an exciting new approach for the treatment of recurrent malignant brain tumors that injects chemotherapy directly into brain tumors in 2009.
  Read story in The New York Times
• Dr. Francesco Rubino pioneers work on the surgical treatment of diabetes in 2008.
  Watch story on CBS News
  Read story in US News & World Report
• Dr. Michael Kaplitt performs the first gene therapy for Parkinson's disease in 2007.
  Read story on MSNBC.com