Highlights SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Students Advocate for Refugee Rights With Asylum Clinic New York City is home to thousands of refugees who arrive here seeking asylum from persecution, violence, torture, and war. They are among over 79 million people displaced worldwide and have unique social, psychological, and medical needs and risk factors…. Read More
Highlights Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Actively Recruits Volunteers From Hardest Hit Communities for COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participating in the Mount Sinai Health System’s clinical trial for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has been deeply personal for New York City educator Willie Benjamin Loadholt. He says it has provided him with the opportunity… Read More
Highlights Introducing AMSNY’s Diversity in Medicine Scholarship Recipients for 2020-2021 The Associated Medical Schools of New York is proud to introduce the 10 recipients of the 2020-2021 AMSNY Diversity in Medicine Scholarship, funded by the New York State Department of Health, thanks to support from the New York State Assembly and the Black, Puerto… Read More
Highlights CUNY School of Medicine, TechnoVax Report COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York and TechnoVax, Inc., a biotechnology developer of novel vaccines, announce a breakthrough in their collaborative effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Scientists from the two organizations have generated and characterized SARS-CoV-2 virus-like… Read More
Highlights NYU Grossman School of Medicine: How COVID-19 Could Affect Med School Admissions Although the coronavirus pandemic has upended many people’s plans, it does not appear to have stopped aspiring doctors from pursuing their dreams and submitting medical school applications, some say. Medical school officials from across the U.S. say that they are receiving just… Read More
Highlights University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, RRH Join Pfizer and BioNTech Late-Stage COVID-19 Vaccine Study The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Rochester Regional Health (RRH) are joining a phase 3 clinical trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The companies received approval from the Food and… Read More
Highlights SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University: I’m a Black Doctor. I Wear my Scrubs Everywhere now. As a urology resident, I spend up to 70 hours a week at the hospital. I wear scrubs to the operating room and through long hospital shifts. And, of course, I wear a gown and other personal protective equipment… Read More
Highlights Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: New $7 Million Grant Will Advance the use of Genomic Data in Health Care for all Populations The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $7 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to create new methods and protocols for assessing… Read More
Highlights A 14-Year Partnership: ‘Honored and Privileged to be the Temporary Steward’ In an interview earlier this year with Columbia Medicine, Dr. Lee Goldman, outgoing dean of the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2006–and former chair of the AMSNY Board of Trustees–discusses the commitment, partnerships, and investments that led to the medical school’s… Read More
Highlights NYU Grossman School of Medicine: U.S. Clinical Trial for COVID-19 Vaccine Starts at NYU Langone Health The first U.S. patients have been dosed in a clinical trial testing whether four experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidates can prevent infection with the virus that causes 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced… Read More
