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.
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Highlights
- UB Faculty Expand Program to Inspire Young Scientists
- Superstorm Sandy Aftermath at NYC Labs: ‘Science Doesn’t Stop’
- NYU Langone Experts Present New Research at American College of Rheumatology 2013 Meeting
- Einstein Researchers Lead Panels at NIH Aging and Chronic Disease Symposium on Geroscience
- Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky Receives National Honor for Seminal Research in Hematology
- Parkinson’s Disease Patients Learn About NYIT Research
- Hunter College and Weill Cornell Medical College Join Forces to Advance Medical Discoveries
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants for Research
- Other Awards/Grants for Research
Cancer
- Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Mechanisms and Potential Biomarkers of Tumor Cell Dormancy
- UB Scientist’s Firm to Develop Promising Breast Cancer Treatment
- Preclinical Study Finds Drug that Helps Against Pancreatic Cancer
- Multivitamins May Protect Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer
- NYU Cancer Institute Leads $6.25 Million Research Effort to Find New Therapies for Childhood Cancer
Cardiology
- Nerve Stimulation in Neck May Reduce Heart Failure Symptoms
- Risk of Heart Disease From Breast Cancer Radiation Declines
Genetics
- Global Study Discovers Flurry of New Alzheimer’s Genes
- Changes in Epigenetic DNA Functions Reveal How Diabetes Predisposes Individuals to Alzheimer’s
- UB Scientists ID First ‘Protection Signature’ for Autoimmune Disease
- Previously Unstudied Gene is Essential for Normal Nerve Development
Other Studies
- Scientists Capture Most Detailed Picture Yet of Key AIDS Protein
- UB Study in JAMA Pediatrics: Early Term Babies Face Health Risks
- New Study Shows How Staph Toxin Disarms the Immune System
- UB Research on Receptors Sheds Light on Fetal Syndrome
- Toxin-Emitting Bacteria Being Evaluated as a Potential Multiple Sclerosis Trigger
UB Faculty Expand Program to Inspire Young Scientists
November 1, 2013 – “University at Buffalo scientists are expanding their innovative, hands-on training program to engage hundreds of area high school students in the thrill of cutting-edge bioinformatics discovery.”
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© 2013 University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Superstorm Sandy Aftermath at NYC Labs: ‘Science Doesn’t Stop’
October 30, 2013 – “Twelve months hasn’t been enough time for the researchers and facilities of New York University Langone Medical Center to get back to where they were before superstorm Sandy, but the progress made is remarkable.”
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Experts from NYU Langone Present New Research at American College of Rheumatology 2013 Annual Meeting
October 30, 2013 – Experts from NYU Langone’s Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology presented new research and participated in expert panel discussions at the American College of Rheumatology 2013 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, October 26-30.
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© 2013 NYU Langone Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Einstein Researchers Lead Panels at NIH Aging and Chronic Disease Symposium on Geroscience
October 29, 2013 – “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has chosen two leading aging researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University to chair panels at the first symposium on “geroscience” — the study of how aging influences the onset of chronic diseases.”
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© 2013 Albert Einstein College of Medicine. All rights reserved.
Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky Receives National Honor for Seminal Research in Hematology
October 25, 2013 – “Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences and Dean of Stony Brook University School of Medicine will be honored by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) with the 2013 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize. The prestigious award and accompanying lecture is an annual honor by the ASH given to leading national researchers and clinicians for their significant contributions to the understanding and treatment of hematologic diseases.”
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© 2013 Stony Brook University. All rights reserved.
Parkinson’s Disease Patients Learn About NYIT Research
October 25, 2013 – “Researchers from NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Adele Smither’s Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Center connected with hundreds of patients and caregivers last week at an event designed to promote participation in Parkinson’s research.”
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© 2013 New York Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.
Hunter College and Weill Cornell Medical College Join Forces to Advance Bench-to-Bedside Medical Discoveries
October 24, 2013 – “Standing in the soon-to-be finished space that will soon house some of the most innovative bench-to-bedside medical discoveries in New York, Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Weill Cornell Medical College Dean Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher celebrate the partnership between the two institutions for collaborative research.”
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© 2013 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants for Research
Einstein and Montefiore Receive $25 Million NIH Grant to Support Clinical and Translational Research
October 15, 2013 – For the Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at Einstein and Montefiore. The purpose of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program is to support scientists and clinicians in enhancing research innovation, efficiency and quality.
NIH Awards Grant for New NYU STEP Program Created to Bolster Biomedical Research Training
October 3, 2013 – To enhance the training of biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to prepare them for a wide range of careers.
Other Awards/Grants for Research
Public Phase of $12.5 Million Capital Campaign Launched, $15.5 Million Donation Announced
October 30, 2013 – $15.5 million gift, the largest gift in the institution’s more than 170-year history. Of the $125 million to be raised through Lifeline: the Campaign for Albany Medical Center, $50 million will be earmarked for the patient pavilion and $75 million for education and research.
NYU School of Medicine Scientists is Awarded Prestigious Packard Fellowship
October 29, 2013 – $875,000 over five years from the program, one of the nation’s largest non-governmental fellowships, to pursue novel research into the relationship between DNA and genomic regulation.
Five SUNY Downstate Faculty Members Given Empire Clinical Research Investigator (ECRIP) Awards
October 24, 2013 – To help train young physicians as clinical researchers, advance clinical and translational research in diseases that are common among New Yorkers, and increase the extent of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to researchers in New York State.
New Initiative Will Focus on Improving Care Outcomes
October 24, 2013 – $1.2 million grant from the New York State Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (ECRIP) to support new research teams in the URMC Departments of Surgery, Neurology, and Medicine.
Mount Sinai Researcher Awarded $150,000 Grant from Radiological Society of North American Research and Education Foundation
October 24, 2013 – To develop a more reliable technique to provide images of the entire spinal cord and to develop protocols for more advanced applications of functional and diffusion MRI to not only more accurately diagnose spinal cord abnormalities, but also to provide better measures of prognosis and disease progression.
How Does Aging Affect Cancer? Einstein Awarded $2.8 Million to Answer NCI ‘Provocative Question’
October 21, 2013 – To investigate one of the 24 “Provocative Questions” by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on how aging affects cancer development. The researchers will examine the role of epigenetics in causing lung cancer in people of different ages.
New York Medical College Awarded New Grant to Study Health Impact of Hurricane Sandy
October 10, 2013 – To study the impact of mold and other health hazards associated with Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the region one year ago.
Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Mechanisms and Potential Biomarkers of Tumor Cell Dormancy
October 28, 2013 – “A study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that bone marrow contains high levels of TGFβ2, which activates the tumor suppressor gene p38 in tumor cells and triggers a cascade of events that renders tumor cells dormant and keeps HNSCC growth in check.”
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© 2013 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.
UB Scientist’s Firm to Develop Promising Breast Cancer Treatment
October 25, 2013 – “Through her startup firm, University at Buffalo researcher Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, PhD ’84, is turning a mouse antibody she created into a promising cancer-fighting therapy for humans.”
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© 2013 University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Preclinical Study Finds Drug that Helps Against Pancreatic Cancer
October 24, 2013 – “An investigational drug that disrupts tumor blood vessels shows promise against a rare type of pancreatic cancer, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found.”
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© 2013 Albert Einstein College of Medicine. All rights reserved.
Multivitamins May Protect Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer
October 9, 2013 – “Findings from a study involving thousands of postmenopausal women suggest that women who develop invasive breast cancer may benefit from taking supplements containing both multivitamins and minerals. The risk of dying from invasive breast cancer was 30 percent lower among multivitamin/mineral users.”
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© 2013 Albert Einstein College of Medicine. All rights reserved.
NYU Cancer Institute Leads $6.25 Million Research Effort to Find New Therapies for the Most Common Form of Childhood Cancer
October 3, 2013 – “Researchers at The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center are leading a $6.25 million, five-year research initiative, funded by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, to develop new therapies and advance the cure rate for children and young adults with acute lymphoblastic cancer (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.“
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© 2013 NYU Langone Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Nerve Stimulation in Neck May Reduce Heart Failure Symptoms
October 30, 2013 – “A multidisciplinary team of experts in heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, and neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital are now testing nerve stimulation in the neck as a novel therapy for heart failure patients to potentially help relieve their debilitating symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, and heart arrhythmias, while reducing their hospitalizations.”
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© 2013 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.
Risk of Heart Disease From Breast Cancer Radiation Declines
October 28, 2013 – “Radiation exposure from breast cancer treatment is associated with a small risk of heart disease later in life, but the risk is now lower than it was 20 years ago, says a new study by radiological researchers at Columbia University Medical Center.”
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© 2013 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Global Study Discovers Flurry of New Alzheimer’s Genes
October 28, 2013 – “An international study has uncovered 11 new genes that increase the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease and provide new clues to ways of fighting it. The study, which examined close to 75,000 people in 15 countries, doubles the number of known genes that increase Alzheimer’s risk in the elderly.”
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© 2013 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Changes in Epigenetic DNA Functions Reveal How Diabetes Predisposes Individuals to Alzheimer’s Disease
October 23, 2013 – “A research team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discovered a novel mechanism through which people with diabetes may be more likely to develop cognitive deterioration and increased susceptibility to onset of dementia related to Alzheimer’s disease.”
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© 2013 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.
UB Scientists ID First ‘Protection Signature’ for Autoimmune Disease
October 18, 2013 – “University at Buffalo researchers have identified a protective mechanism for a rare autoimmune skin disease in healthy, though genetically susceptible, individuals.”
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© 2013 University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Previously Unstudied Gene is Essential for Normal Nerve Development
September 10, 2013 – “For the first time, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a gene that orchestrates the crucially important branching of nerve fibers that occurs during development.”
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© 2013 Albert Einstein College of Medicine. All rights reserved.
Scientists Capture Most Detailed Picture Yet of Key AIDS Protein
October 31, 2013 – “Collaborating scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Weill Cornell Medical College have determined the first atomic-level structure of the tripartite HIV envelope protein — long considered one of the most difficult targets in structural biology and of great value for medical science.”
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© 2013 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.
UB Study in JAMA Pediatrics: Early Term Babies Face Health Risks
October 24, 2013 – “Early-term newborns may look as healthy as full-term babies, but a study published in JAMA Pediatrics by University at Buffalo physicians has found they are at significantly higher risk for adverse outcomes.”
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© 2013 University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
New Study Shows How Staph Toxin Disarms the Immune System, Reveals Secret to Microbe’s Deadly Versatility
October 16, 2013 – “Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a new mechanism by which the deadly Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. Their findings explain a critical survival tactic of a pathogen that causes more skin and heart infections than any other microbe, and kills more than 100,000 Americans every year.”
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© 2013 NYU Langone Medical Center. All rights reserved.
UB Research on Receptors Sheds Light on Fetal Syndrome
October 16, 2013 – “Scientists in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics are the first to quantify the difference between two subunits of a neuromuscular protein at the molecular level — research that has potential implications for a deadly fetal syndrome.”
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© 2013 University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Toxin-Emitting Bacteria Being Evaluated as a Potential Multiple Sclerosis Trigger
October 16, 2013 – “A research team from Weill Cornell Medical College and The Rockefeller University has identified a bacterium it believes may trigger multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, debilitating disorder that damages myelin forming cells in the brain and spinal cord.”
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© 2013 Weill Cornell Medical College. All rights reserved.