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

Highlights NYU School of Medicine: Faith-Based Intervention Successful at Managing Hypertension in Black Communities, New Study Finds A lifestyle intervention delivered in churches by community-based health workers led to a significant reduction in blood pressure among African Americans compared to health education alone. This is the finding of a study led by researchers at NYU… Read More

Highlights Stem Cell Research is Paying off for New York Twenty years ago, a medical research revolution was born when scientists discovered how to harvest stem cells. Since then, researchers across New York have made huge advances in finding treatments and cures. If we are to eradicate the most devastating diseases, we need to continue… Read More

Highlights New York Medical College Appoints Jerry L. Nadler, M.D., FACP, FAHA, FACE, Dean of the School of Medicine After an extensive international search, New York Medical College (NYMC) has appointed Jerry L. Nadler, M.D., FACP, FAHA, FACE, dean of the School of Medicine. An internationally-recognized expert in the field of pathogenesis of diabetes, Dr…. Read More

Highlights Secondary School Teachers Trade Vacation for Stem Cell Research at Columbia Kimberly Dempsey is one of 15 high school teachers conducting research this summer in Columbia University’s Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, now in its 29th year. The program provides paid fellowships for two consecutive summers to New York metropolitan area secondary science… Read More

Highlights Natural ‘Breakdown’ of Chemicals Predicts Lung Damage in 9/11 Firefighters Abnormal levels of more than two dozen metabolites-chemicals produced in the body as it breaks down fats, proteins, and carbohydrates-reliably predicted which 9/11 firefighters developed lung disease and which did not, a new analysis shows. NYU School of Medicine researchers say the results, published… Read More