Weill Cornell Medicine Launches Collaborative Bioethics Fellowship
Four institutions – Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Houston Methodist, and Baylor College of Medicine – are coming together to form the New York-Houston Medical Ethics Consortium under which the New York based Medical Ethics Fellowship Program will operate, in addition to a parallel Houston-based fellowship sponsored by Houston Methodist and Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. The collaboration presents an opportunity to unite faculty, knowledge and experience to create future leaders in the bioethics community.
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Wins 2011 NVBMB Prize
Dr. Rogier Sanders, adjunct assistant research professor of microbiology and immunology and a member of Dr. John Moore's lab, won the 2011 NVBMB Prize from the Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The society awards the prize to the most promising young Dutch biochemist or molecular biologist with at least two years of postdoctoral experience.
Dr. Sanders, a virologist who also maintains a faculty appointment at the University of Amsterdam, is focusing his research on the structure-based design of better Envelope immunogens. His research also includes a unique combination of virus evolution strategies and X-ray analysis.
The society was established in 1927 representing students and professionals working in the area of biochemistry and molecular biology to stimulate the fields at a high professional level.