Holding the banner, from left: Josefa M. Sullivan, PhD candidate, Neuroscience; Tamjeed Sikder, Senior Associate Researcher, Neuroscience; and Victor H. Leyva-Grado, PhD, Instructor, Microbiology.
“Scientists have to speak out and protect our earth, our patients, and our work,” Scott L. Friedman, MD, Dean for Therapeutic Discovery and Chief of the Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said while participating in the recent March for Science in New York City. “We all have a stake in this.” The nonpartisan celebration of science and scientific research, held on Earth Day, had its central event in Washington, D.C., which was attended by nearly 30 Mount Sinai participants.
Above, from left: Marta Filizola, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, Director, Immunology Institute; Margaret H. Baron, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Education, and Director, MD-PhD Program; Barbara Murphy, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, and Dean for Clinical Integration and Population Health; and Benjamin K. Chen, MD, PhD, the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine.
A total of 400 Mount Sinai faculty and staff joined the more than 50,000 people who marched in New York City. Among them was Jill Dvornik, Senior Associate Researcher, Pharmacological Sciences, and co-chair of the March for Science NYC, who said the event also aimed to create an educational scientific dialogue with the community. “Most of our speakers were ordinary citizens who have done extraordinary things in science. You do not have to wear a lab coat to be involved and engaged. That is the best way to protect publicly funded science.”