Highlights Governor Cuomo Announces Inaugural NYFIRST Grant Recipients Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the inaugural grant recipients from the New York Fund for Innovation in Research and Scientific Talent, a $15 million medical school capital funding program to encourage recruitment and retention of exceptional life sciences researchers focused on translational research. The first… Read More
Highlights SUNY Upstate Medical University Adds More Colleges, Universities to its Accelerated Scholars Program Upstate Medical University’s Accelerated Scholars Program, which guarantees a student’s admission to medical school when he or she is admitted to a partner undergraduate institution, is about to go from three partner schools to potentially more than 15. Learn more. Jacobs School… Read More
Highlights Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: New “Smart Drug” Shows Promise for Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer A new “smart drug” has shown promise for women with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, based on data from a clinical trial at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and other centers…. Read More
Highlights USA Today: After Decades of Effort, African-American Enrollment in Medical School Still Lags USA TODAY examined medical school enrollment after the wide coverage of the racially controversial photo that appeared in the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook entry of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. AMSNY shares what is being done in New York to increase diversity in medicine. Learn more…. Read More
Highlights Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: Concussion Treatment Adolescent athletes who sustained concussions while playing a sport recovered more quickly when they underwent a supervised, aerobic exercise regimen, a study published Feb. 4 in JAMA Pediatrics has found. An editorial in the journal called it “a landmark study.” The study,… Read More
Highlights AMSNY Seeks to Expand Diversity in Medicine Pipeline Programs AMSNY is hard at work, advocating for an expansion of state funding for diversity in medicine pipeline programs and scholarships. The state has supported successful programs run by AMSNY in partnership with medical schools across the state for over 25 years, and funded a new scholarship launched by… Read More
Highlights Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Four Studies by Mount Sinai Investigators Featured in Special Issue of Science Focused on Big Data The work of several Mount Sinai researchers who analyze brain genomics data as part of the PsychENCODE Consortium, a collective established in 2015 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is… Read More
Highlights Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell: Artist Elizabeth Jameson Teaches Students and Clinicians What it Means to be Human The Osler Society of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell hosted a program, The Reimagined Brain, featuring the work and words of Elizabeth Jameson, a former public interest lawyer turned… Read More
Highlights Weill Cornell Medicine Awarded $9 Million Prestigious Grant for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $9 million Program Project Grant (P01) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better understand how and why patients with an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma initially respond to treatment, only to… Read More
Highlights Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: Doctors Without Debt: P. Roy Vagelos ’54PS, ’90HON is Changing the Future of Medical Education in America In December 2017, Columbia announced that Roy and Diana Vagelos were giving $250 million to Columbia’s medical school. Of that amount, $150 million has gone to an endowed fund… Read More
