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Newsletter > News from the Medical Schools: Research

06/25/2015 Biomedical Research

News from the Medical Schools: Research

The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) brings you the following compilation of the most recent updates and news on research from the academic medical centers in the state.

Highlights

  • Researchers at the Academic Medical Center
  • Funds for Research in New York State

Cancer

  • Discovery May Lead to Targeted Melanoma Therapies
  • Weill Cornell Investigators Discover How Ovarian Halts Body’s Natural Defense Against Tumor
  • University at Buffalo Researchers to Further Test Promising Anti-Cancer Antibody

Cardiology

  • Scientists Discover New Powerful Drug Candidate Can Improve a Failing Heart’s Function
  • Study Finds Lipid Mediator Associated with Good Cholesterol Promotes More Than Just Good Heart Health

Genetics

  • Mount Sinai Scientists Develop New Technique for Analyzing the Epigenetics of Bacteria, a Potential New Tool to Combat Pathogens and Overcome Antibiotic Resistance
  • ‘Think Like Pathogens’ to Fight Infection

Neurology

  • Commentary: Hospice Services Can Better Promote Bereavement Adjustment for Spousal Caregivers

Other Studies

  • Food Order Has Significant Impact on Glucose and Insulin Levels
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Most Consistent Treatment for Panic Disorders
  • Acid-Reducing Medications Sharply Raise Risk of C. Diff. Bacteria Infection in Kids
  • Study of Physician Participation in Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs Signals Need for Further EHR Healthcare Policy Maintenance
  • Pelvic Organic Prolapse Procedures with Mesh Increase, Leading to Age-based Complications
  • New Color Blindness Cause Identified

Other Articles of Interest

  • Albany Medical Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members
  • Ceremony Marks Investiture of Mark Taubman as Medical Center CEO
  • Hundreds of New Health Professional Graduate from SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Researchers at the Academic Medical Centers

First Winners of Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards Announced
June 15, 2015 – Six young scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medical College have been named the inaugural winners of a new prize established to recognize postdoctoral investigators in the life sciences. The Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards for Junior Investigators, which include a $25,000 prize for each recipient, were established by three Tri-Institutional winners of the 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Science — one from each of the three institutions — with additional financial support from the institutions themselves.
3 Medical School Faculty Honored for Entrepreneurial Spirit
June 15, 2015 – Three faculty in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have been recognized for founding startups and licensing their technology.
Dr. Matthew Scharff’s Remarkable Journey as an Immunology Professor
May 9, 2015 – Matthew Scharff, M.D., distinguished professor of cell biology and of medicine and the Harry Eagle Chair in Cancer Research/National Women’s Division, was awarded the American Association of Immunologists’ first BioLegend Herzenberg Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of immunology in B-cell biology. The following is a look at Dr. Scharff’s extraordinary career as a scientist and mentor.



Funds for Research

Pancreatic Cancer Group Backs Wilmot Research to Stop Metastasis
June 18, 2015 – Scientists at the Wilmot Cancer Institute are working toward doubling the survival rates for pancreatic cancer by 2020—and to help achieve that goal the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network recently awarded $300,000.

$10 Million Grant Funds Center to Study OCD at UR School of Medicine and Dentistry
June 4, 2015 – The goal of a new $10 million grant awarded to scientists at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is to improve our understanding of the brain networks that play a central role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Together with leading mental health researchers at four other institutions in the U.S., they will pinpoint specific abnormalities within the brain circuits that are associated with the disease and use this information to guide new treatment options for the three million-plus Americans who live with the disorder.
NIH Grants $10.5 Million for Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center
June 1, 2015 – Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a $10.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their Diabetes Research Center (DRC), which has been newly named the Einstein-Mount Sinai DRC. The regional collaborative combines Einstein’s basic and clinical research strengths with Mount Sinai’s beta cell and community outreach expertise. Researchers and clinicians at Montefiore Health System, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Hunter College, Winthrop-University Hospital, Stony Brook University and NYU Langone Medical Center also participate. This new grant is part of an ongoing NIH effort to encourage multi-institution, regional research centers.



Discovery May Lead to Targeted Melanoma Therapies

June 17, 2015 – Melanoma patients with high levels of a protein that controls the expression of pro-growth genes are less likely to survive, according to a study led by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online in the journal Molecular Cell.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


Weill Cornell Investigators Discover How Ovarian Cancer Halts Body’s Natural Defense Against Tumor

June 11, 2015 – Ovarian cancer shuts down immune system cells that would otherwise act as a first line of defense against the deadly tumor, Weill Cornell Medical College scientists report today. But a therapy that restores the cells’ disease-fighting abilities could provide a powerful new strategy to attack the cancer, which kills more than 14,000 women each year.

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© 2015 Welil Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


University at Buffalo Researchers to Further Test Promising Anti-Cancer Antibody

June 8, 2015 – For-Robin, a company founded and led by a Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, PhD, will further study and develop a promising potential cancer treatment. The next steps in the research and development process will be funded with a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

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© 2015 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.


Scientists Discover New Powerful Drug Candidate Can Improve a Failing Heart’s Function

June 12, 2015 – An experimental drug improves the ability of heart muscle cells damaged by heart failure to pump blood, according to the results of a study led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers and published online today in Nature Communications.

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© 2015 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.


Study Finds Lipid Mediator Associated with Good Cholesterol Promotes More Than Just Good Heart Health

June 8, 2015 – High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is often referred to as “good” cholesterol because it transports fat molecules out of blood vessels, protecting against stroke and heart disease. Now, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that HDL in blood also carries a protein that powerfully regulates immune function. Together they play an important role in preventing inflammation in the body.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


Mount Sinai Scientists Develop New Technique for Analyzing the Epigenetics of Bacteria, a Potential New Tool to Combat Pathogens and Overcome Antiobiotic Resistance

June 15, 2015 – Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new technique to more precisely analyze bacterial populations, to reveal epigenetic mechanisms that can drive virulence. The new methods hold the promise of a potent new tool to offset the growing challenge of antibiotic resistance by bacterial pathogens. The research was published today in the journal Nature Communications, and conducted in collaboration with New York University Langone Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School.

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© 2015 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.

‘Think Like Pathogens’ to Fight Infection

June 10, 2015 – In the fight against infectious disease, University at Buffalo immunologist Michael W. Russell, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, advocates a novel alternative to antibiotics and vaccines: directly target the immune system.

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© 2015 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.


Commentary: Hospice Services Can Better Promote Bereavement for Spousal Caregivers

May 26, 2015 – Nearly half of all people in the United States who are at the end of their lives receive hospice care, which provides compassionate care to patients with a focus on improving their quality of life. Although hospice does much to ease the physical and emotional burdens imposed on a caregiving spouse when their partner is terminally ill, this type of care could be further strengthened to attend to the psychological needs of family car
givers after their loved ones have died, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers write in a commentary published May 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


Food Order Has Significant Impact on Glucose and Insulin Levels

June 23, 2015 – Eating protein and vegetables before carbohydrates leads to lower post-meal glucose and insulin levels in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers found in a new study. This finding, published June 23 in the journal Diabetes Care, might impact the way clinicians advise diabetic patients and other high-risk individuals to eat, focusing not only on how much, but also on when carbohydrates are consumed.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Most Consistent Treatment for Panic Disorders

June 22, 2015 – Cognitive behavioral therapy, a structured, results-based psychotherapy that targets negative thoughts and how they impact behavior, is the most consistently effective way to manage symptoms tied to panic disorder, though another less-structured treatment also shows promise, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania found in a new study, published June 9 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.

Acid-Reducing Medications Sharply Raise Risk of C. Diff. Bacteria Infection in Kids

June 17, 2015 – Infants and children who are given prescription acid-reducing medications face a substantially higher risk of developing Clostridium difficile infection, a potentially severe colonic disorder. The findings, reported by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, suggest that pediatricians may do more harm than good by prescribing these drugs for children who have non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms such as occasional vomiting. The study was published recently in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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© 2015 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.

Study of Physician Participation in Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs Signals Need for Further EHR Healthcare Policy Maintenance

June 8, 2015 – Federal programs offering financial incentives to physicians who adopt electronic health record systems have boosted the number of participants who use them, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers found in a new study. But in the process, systematic differences have emerged between physicians who consistently participated in the programs and those who did not, which could lead to disparities in patient care.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


Pelvic Organic Prolapse Procedures with Mesh Increase, Leading to Age-based Complications

June 2, 2015 – Despite FDA warnings that a synthetic mesh used to treat a weakening of the female pelvis’s walls can cause infection, pain, and disease recurrence, surgeons are increasing their use of the device. What’s more, when compared to not using mesh, younger patients who undergo surgery with mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) are more likely to have a repeat surgery the following year, and older patients are more likely to have complications while they’re in the hospital, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medical College.

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© 2015 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.


New Color Blindness Cause Identified

June 1, 2015 – A rare eye disorder marked by color blindness, light sensitivity, and other vision problems can result from a newly discovered gene mutation identified by an international research team, including scientists from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The findings, which were published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics, could lead to new, targeted treatments for this form of color blindness.

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© 2015 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.


Albany Medical Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members

June 22, 2015 – Albany Medical Center today announced the appointment of three distinguished local leaders and philanthropists to its Board of Directors: Dr. Robert J. Jones, president of the University at Albany, Ruth Mahoney, president of KeyBank’s Capital Region Market, and Morris Carl Massry (“Murray”), project manager at Tri City Rentals.

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© 2015 Albany Medical College. All rights reserved.


Ceremony Marks Investiture of Mark Taubman as Medical Center CEO

June 12, 2015 – Mark B. Taubman, M.D., was formally invested as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Rochester Medical Center and UR Medicine and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Rochester at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 10, in the medical school’s Class of ’62 Auditorium.

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© 2015 University of Rochester Medical Center. All rights reserved.


Hundreds of New Health Professionals Graduate from SUNY Downstate Medical Center

June 5, 2015 – SUNY Downstate Medical Center graduated a new class of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, research scientists, and public health professionals at commencement ceremonies held recently at Carnegie Hall.

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© 2015 SUNY Downstate Medical Center. All rights reserved.


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