In his effort to address the needs of underserved communities in health and education, Christopher Blackwood, a doctoral student in the area of pharmacology, has landed three major fellowship awards in three months to support his research into how the brain creates new neurons. Blackwood hopes his work will contribute to new therapies for such […]
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Immune systems have their sinister side, especially when they have not learned how hard to fight. Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases inflict more than a million Americans with debilitating pain and digestive unrest because of uncontrolled immune responses in the gut. How this happens remained a mystery until immunologists at Cornell’s College of […]
By Carly Hodes Fifteen faculty members from disciplines across campus will combine their experience as research educators to encourage the exploration of vertebrate developmental genomics to potentially improve the understanding of how genes guide development, thanks to a $659,529 training grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will support three graduate students who […]