Message from the Director

Scott D. Emr
Scott D. Emr
Welcome to the new Joan and Sanford I. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University. I am delighted to be the Institute’s first Director and am honored to be working with such an impressive team of researchers at Cornell--all of us sharing the goal of establishing a multidisciplinary Institute to study cell biology. The Weill Institute is part of Cornell University's bold New Life Sciences Initiative. The Institute will be moving into a new building now nearing completion and we will have our first round of faculty recruiting commencing this summer.
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Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology benefits from $25 million gift from the Weills
June 13, 2007
The Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology will receive $25 million out of the $300 million gift from Joan and Sanford Weill to Weill Cornell Medical College and to Cornell's Ithaca campus, and the institute will be named for them.
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Cornell professors Scott Emr and Richard Durrett elected to National Academy of Sciences
June 9, 2007
Scott Emr, director of Cornell's Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, and Richard Durrett, Cornell professor of mathematics, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Bretscher named associate director of new Cornell Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
Jan. 10, 2007
Anthony Bretscher, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, has been named associate director of the newly formed Cornell Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology (CICMB).
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Scott Emr to lead biology institute at Cornell
May 24, 2006
Scott Emr approaches science first by asking a basic question. Then comes the hard work of finding an answer. A highly respected biologist who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology -- the cornerstone of the $650 million New Life Sciences Initiative -- Emr has used this scientific method to uncover the molecular details of essential processes that occur in all cells.
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