Dec 13, 2016 | Research
At Icahn School of Medicine, a bunch of ferrets may be getting a better version of the flu vaccine than you are. The ferrets are part of a lab run by Dr. Peter Palese, a microbiologist who has dedicated his career to fighting influenza. Palese said he knows all too well how hard it is to create a perfect vaccine. The current flu shot is nowhere close to 100 percent effective. Last year, it was about 20 percent effective. Palese has been developing an alternative which avoids the main challenge presented by the flu virus, the fact that it knows how to go incognito. Read more
Dec 10, 2016 | Research
Mount Sinai Health System today announced the creation of the Medical Modeling Core, a collaboration led by the Department of Neurosurgery, where clinicians can confer and order 3D models for their cases. Virtual reality, simulation, and 3D printing services will be provided on a low-cost fee-for-service basis with quick turnaround times. This resource will be the first of its kind catering to the unique patient-specific modeling requirements of clinicians at Mount Sinai.
Dec 2, 2016 | Featured, Inside, Research, School
Keynote Speaker George Church, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
The increasingly important role that academic medical centers play in the discovery of treatments for human diseases was the central theme of the Fifth Annual SinaInnovations conference held Tuesday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 26, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Research, Your Health
Guest blog written by Ryan Ungaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center.
More than 3 million people in the United States alone suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and thousands of new cases are being diagnosed every year. Worldwide, more than 5 million people are living with IBD, according to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. In 2011, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution making December 1-7 Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week. Chances are that even if you do not have the disease, you know someone who does. But there is hope. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside, Research, School
First-place winners in the MedMaker Challenge included, from left, second-year medical students Taylor Miller, Davis Zhou, Dong Yao, and John Di Capua. Not pictured, team member Ryan Neff.
SinaInnovations hosted its first MedMaker Challenge this year, a two-day competition to “democratize innovation” that drew 75 participants—including students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions, and engineering and software professionals. The goal of the competition was to create a high-tech approach to managing, monitoring, and treating health problems associated with pain and fatigue. In all, 14 teams worked on solutions over a 48-hour period. A panel of judges from Mount Sinai chose first-, second-, and third-place winning teams that received prizes of $3,500, $2,500, and $1,500, respectively. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside, Research
Nineteen individuals from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for their contributions to research, technology, medicine, and health care at the second annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, which was held on Monday, October 24, in conjunction with the SinaInnovations conference. (more…)
At Icahn School of Medicine, a bunch of ferrets may be getting a better version of the flu vaccine than you are. The ferrets are part of a lab run by Dr. Peter Palese, a microbiologist who has dedicated his career to fighting influenza. Palese said he knows all too well how hard it is to create a perfect vaccine. The current flu shot is nowhere close to 100 percent effective. Last year, it was about 20 percent effective. Palese has been developing an alternative which avoids the main challenge presented by the flu virus, the fact that it knows how to go incognito. Read more
