Programs Based in Weill
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
The primary mission of the Department of Biomedical Engineering is to educate students to understand the human body as an integrated system through quantitative engineering analysis, and to use that understanding to design better therapeutic strategies, devices, and diagnostics to improve human health.
Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
The mission of Weill Institute is four fold: (1) Establish Cornell as a premier university in cell biology research; (2) Stimulate new discoveries that can be translated into medical advances that improve human health; (3) Attract the best students, postdocs and scientists; (4) Establish an environment that encourages collaboration and the transfer of ideas and technology.
Department of Computational Biology
The Department Computational Biology (CB) consists of faculty members with expertise in computer science, genomics, systems biology, population genetics and modeling. They apply these skills to a wide range of exciting problems in the life sciences.
Division of Nutritional Sciences
The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University was established in 1974 through a union of the Graduate School of Nutrition, an autonomous Graduate School at Cornell University, and the Department of Food and Nutrition in the College of Human Ecology. It is among the largest academic units in the United States devoted to human nutrition. It combines expertise in molecular biology, genetics and metabolism, physiology, community nutrition, international nutrition, and food policy.
Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE)
The Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE) is a service and a resource to the Cornell research and teaching community. The mission of CARE is to ensure animal welfare and facilitate research and teaching. CARE provides high quality animal care and veterinary services. CARE advises and educates researchers, staff and students on animal experimentation issues, promoting best practices for the responsible use of animals. These actions result in quality science merging with animal welfare.
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) Weill Hall Plant Growth Chamber Lab
The Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station is dedicated to sustainable “science for life,” in its two core separate but related functions — the operation of world-class research facilities throughout the state and the generation and application of research-based knowledge through the administration of federal formula grants. CUAES operates the Plant Growth Chamber Lab at Weill.
Biotechnology Resource Center (BRC) Imaging Facility
The Biotechnology Resource Center (BRC) provides an array of instrumentation and services to the Cornell University community and to outside investigators. The BRC Imaging Facility specializes in optical microscopy, including point-scanning and spinning disk confocal with live cell imaging, laser microdissection microscopy, multiphoton, and fluorescence/transmitted light microscopy. Services include microscope training, fee-for-use, consulting, collaborative research, and education.
Center for Life Science Ventures
The Center for Life Science Ventures was founded in 2008 as a startup incubator to help develop young Cornell life science companies. The Center is funded by Cornell’s Research Division, the Institute of Biotechnology and NYSTAR. The Center’s program focuses on accelerating research and development of its client’s companies’ technology and products, validating its client companies’ business plans, and strengthening their management teams. The Center’s goal is to facilitate the forward progress of client companies to the point where each will merit significant outside investment, and achieve self-sufficiency. In doing so, the Center for Life Science Ventures contributes to the University’s mission as New York State’s Morrill Land Grant institution to support local, regional, and state-wide Life Sciences jobs/economic development.
The School of Integrative Plant Science’s Plant Innovation Hub (formerly the Plant Transformation Facility) provides the SIPS community with access to high-tech plant transformation. Conveniently located in B22 Weill Hall (accessible through the tunnel from Plant Science Building), we provide reagents, equipment, protocols and training so that you can develop valuable plant transformation skills and make discoveries that will transform the plant sciences and improve lives.