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
Cancer
- New Mouse Model With Healthy Immune System Developed for Colon Cancer Research
- Scientists are Designing Decoy Drugs to Fool Cancer
- Study Discovers How Pancreatic Cancer Spreads the Liver
Cardiology
Genetics
- Stem Cell Study Evaluates ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Heart Failure Treatment
- Gene Therapy Clips Out Heart Failure Causing Gene Mutations
- More Power to the Mitochondria: Cells’ Energy Plant Also Plays Key Role in Stem Cell Development
Neurology
Other Studies
- Study Identifies Ebola Virus’ Achilles’ Heel
- Parents Often Misperceive Their Obese Children as “About the Right Weight”
- Patients with AIDS at Increased Risk of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Durable Benefits Seen for Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema
Researchers at the Academic Medical Centers
Funds for Research
New Mouse Model with Healthy Immune System Developed for Colon Cancer Research
Scientists are Designing Decoy Drugs to Fool Cancer
May 26, 2015 – Cancer cells are shifty characters. They use a number of dirty tricks to survive and infiltrate the body. Now Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists are fighting back with some sneaky strategies of their own. A study published in Cancer Discovery describes how Jan Kitajewski, PhD, and colleagues have created new decoy drugs that can intercept the deceptive growth signals that cancer cells send out.
Study Discovers How Pancreatic Cancer Spreads to the Liver
May 18, 2015 – An international team led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators has illuminated the precise molecular steps that enable pancreatic cancer to spread to the liver — the event that makes the most common form of the disease lethal. By understanding this process, investigators say their discovery can lead to targeted treatments that delay metastasis, and could offer clinicians a new biomarker to test for the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer.
3-D Printed Trachea among Key Mount Sinai Research Presented at American Association for Thoracic Surgery Meeting
Stem Cell Study Evaluates ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Heart Failure Treatment
May 8, 2015 – University at Buffalo researchers will test the effectiveness of using stem cells from donors to treat patients with heart failure.
© 2015 School of Medicine at Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Gene Therapy Clips Out Heart Failure Causing Gene Mutations
More Power to Mitochondria: Cells’ Energy Plant Also Plays Key Role in Stem Cell Development
April 27, 2015 – Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered that mitochondria, the major energy source for most cells, also play an important role in stem cell development—a purpose notably distinct from the tiny organelle’s traditional job as the cell’s main source of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy needed for routine cell metabolism.
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Study Identifies Ebola Virus’ Achilles’ Heel
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© 2015 Albert Einstein College of Medicine. All rights reserved.
Parents Often Misperceive Their Obese Children as “About the Right Weight”
Patients with AIDS at Increased Risk of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration
May 4, 2015 – Patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have a four-fold increase in their risk of developing intermediate-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) compared to people of the same age who are not infected with HIV, according to results from the Longitudinal Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS (LSOCA) presented today at the 2015 ARVO Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. The results of the study, led by the National Eye Institute-funded Studies of the Ocular Complications of AIDS Research Group, were also published online in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Durable Benefits Seen for Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema
May 1, 2015 – Emphysema is a chronic, progressive, obstructive lung disease in which the small sacs of the lung (alveoli) are destroyed, leading to air pockets and severe breathing difficulties. In 2011, 4.7 million Americans reported being diagnosed with emphysema, and in 2013 more than 8200 patients died from emphysema.