The American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) has elected Anthony Bretscher and fellow Cornell scientist John Helnmann as part of their new 78-person new cohort. They join 2,000 fellows representing a myriad of specialities in microbiology, spearheading innovation in their respective...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the jounal Science, has elected Tony Bretscher as a new fellow among 531 researchers to receive...

Scott Emr, director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and professor of molecular biology and genetics, has been elected an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), an honor bestowed upon only a few Americans each...

The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology — a cornerstone of Cornell’s plan to restructure the life sciences — has exceeded expectations for its first year by hiring four outstanding young researchers, according to the institute’s director, Scott Emr. “And we’re planning to hire seven more faculty members over the next two to three years,” said Anthony Bretscher, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics and the Weill Institute’s associate director. The three assistant professors and one research scientist will arrive in Ithaca in August, soon after the Weill Institute takes up residence in Weill Hall, Cornell’s new life sciences technology building, in...

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. Emr, who joined the Cornell faculty in 2007, works on uncovering the molecular details of essential processes that occur in all cells. For example, Emr has helped explain how proteins get in and out of cells, processes called endocytosis and secretion that have provided other scientists with new pathways and targets for cutting-edge research on virology, HIV/AIDS, cancer, immunology, development and...

Anthony Bretscher is slated to be the new associate director of the new Cornell Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, scheduled to open in 2008, helping Scott Emr (currently at University of California – San Diego) to develop the...

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. Emr (pronounced Emmer), currently a University of California-San Diego School of Medicine professor of cellular and molecular medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will begin his Cornell appointment in February...