Earlier this year, the Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII) of the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Department of Radiology (DoR) and the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute of the WCM Brain and Mind Research Institute announced the annual WCM Neurodegeneration Research Awards. Designed to foster interdisciplinary neurodegenerative brain disease research, and open to all faculty, each award is $25,000. On September 1, 2023, four DoR faculty members received the pilot awards. Dr. Laura Beth McIntire, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology in radiology and director of the BHII Lipidomics and Biomarker Discovery Lab, and Dr. Gloria Chiang, M.D., associate professor of clinical radiology and co-director...
