Highlights Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: What Good are Medical Innovations if They Never Reach Patients? New drugs and diagnostic tests go through years of clinical trials before being approved. But while regulatory approval is an enormous hurdle, getting through that process doesn’t automatically ensure that patients have access… Read More

Highlights NYU School of Medicine: Doctor Burnout in Small Practices is Dramatically Lower Than National Average, New Study Concludes Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices-also known as SIPs-report dramatically lower levels of burnout than the national average, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine published online July… Read More

Highlights Promoting Diverse Scientific Workforce Critical in Academic Medicine Academic medical institutions must champion faculty diversity if they are to improve outcomes for patients, according to a National Institutes of Health diversity leader who delivered the keynote address at Weill Cornell Medicine’s inaugural Diversity Week. Learn more. AAMC Study Co-Authored by Einstein Faculty Examines Career Trends… Read More

Highlights Einstein and Montefiore Awarded $25 Million from the NIH to Continue its Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System have received $25 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue support for the Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). The new grant… Read More

Highlights Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: “All of Us” Precision Medicine Program Opens Enrollment to All Hundreds of New Yorkers attended the launch of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program on May 6 at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and 105 began the enrollment process for the landmark… Read More

Highlights Diversity in Medicine Scholars to Work With Patient Populations That Need Them Most Medical school is a daunting financial proposition for anyone, but for those from underrepresented groups it can be a deal-breaker. That financial barrier is one of the major factors leading to the lack of physicians from underrepresented groups. Two students at Jacobs… Read More

Highlights Weill Cornell Medicine: Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute Drug Candidates “Graduate” to Next Phase of Development   When the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute launched just over four years ago, nothing like it existed in academia. The nonprofit academic corporation – a joint venture between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine, with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. as their partner… Read More

Highlights Buffalo News Editorial: Restore Funding for Health Program Even in a year of a significant deficit, this cut doesn’t make sense. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed 2018-19 state budget would make it harder for minority students to become doctors, with unwanted consequences for them, for patients and for communities.  Learn more. Stony Brook Medicine… Read More