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Powerful AI tool can boost precision medicine, treatments

A tool co-developed by Cornell researchers uses AI and machine learning to solve and predict how human proteins might interface and interact with other proteins, which can greatly accelerate fundamental research and clinical precision medicine.

  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
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With NGO, alums boost Rwandan smallholder farmers

Two alums are leading an effort to give Rwandan farmers the tools to grow and sell grains - with the ultimate goal of lifting communities out of poverty and improving food security across East Africa.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
Beth McGinty, chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Colleen Barry, founding dean of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, celebrate the Cornell Health Policy Center's launch during an event Nov. 15 at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Photo by Sudeepa Singh.

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Brooks School, Weill Cornell Medicine center to improve health policy

Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy have established the Cornell Health Policy Center to serve as the locus for health policy impact, research and training across Cornell.

  • Department of Communication
  • Policy Analysis and Management
  • Communication
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New global development minor launches
A new undergraduate minor in global development at Cornell will enhance students’ global perspective and ability to contribute to equitable solutions for the most urgent challenges facing people and the planet. Starting in fall 2024, the minor...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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$25M grant fuels Cornell’s efforts to boost global crop resilience

This renewed funding will enable the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement to strengthen its interdisciplinary efforts to support demand-driven, socially responsive crop improvement programs in key regions around the world.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Seminar

Intersection of Health Equity and Drug Development: How One Company Wrote Its Own Success Story
Abstract The focus of this presentation is on how addressing health inequities through drug discovery can succeed if you create the right strategy for success. In her presentation, Deborah Arrindell ‘79 will center on sickle cell disease (SCD)...
  • Global Development
  • global development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Dale E. Bauman Lecture
A Career in the Genomics Sciences Karen Nelson, Ph.D. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Chief Scientific Officer The human microbiome refers to all the microorganisms that live in and on the human body. It is now estimated that about 57% of the cells in...
  • Dairy
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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U.S. Rural Population Health in the Context of Drug Overdoses, COVID-19, and Longer-Term Mortality Trends
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series The U.S. rural mortality penalty is wide and growing. This talk will present an overview of trends in rural and urban mortality rates since 1990, identify where rates have increased...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Global Development
  • Development
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