Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine Pilot M.D.-M.Eng. Degree

May 10, 2023

A female and a male student sitting at a table talking. The male student is pointing to the screen of a laptop. — Farid Aboharb, right, and Diran Tan '25 study the effects of psychiatric drugs on gene expression.

As part of a new cross-college initiative designed to accelerate engineering innovations in medicine, Cornell Engineering is piloting an M.D.-M.Eng. program that allows medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine to earn a one-year professional Master of Engineering degree while they are in medical school.