Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
How An Interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery Is Shaping Caroline Tavolacci’s Path as a Surgeon-Scientist at Mount Sinai
Sooyun Caroline Tavolacci, MD, MSCR, is a third-year PhD student in the Clinical Research Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a surgeon-scientist in training. Her dissertation research focuses on heart transplantation outcomes, specifically...
Mount Sinai AIHH Grand Rounds: A Thoughtful Way to Adopt AI in Health Care
Health care systems across the country have been increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assist and augment what clinicians and researchers can achieve. Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, was invited as keynote speaker of Mount Sinai’s Windreich Department of AI and Human Health (AIHH) monthly seminar series AIHH Grand Rounds, and he spoke about the transformative potential of AI and how to guide its growth ethically.
Early Exposure to Peanuts Can Help Reduce the Risk of Developing Allergies in Children
Over the past decades, doctors and researchers have learned a lot about food allergies, conducting many studies that have helped us get closer to understanding why such allergies might occur and, potentially, preventing them from developing. The current understanding is that exposing young children to peanut protein may reduce the likelihood that they develop peanut allergies as they grow up. Learn more about how peanut allergies might develop in people, and how introducing peanuts at a young age could help reduce this allergy risk.
Stories Behind the Science: Preparing to Fight the Next Epidemic
Antivirals saved many lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Mount Sinai researchers are involved in discovering new treatments as part a preparedness initiative spearheaded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. However, recent developments led to funding being disrupted, and uncertainty hangs over work that are halfway to being completed.
Advancing Our Understanding of MS: One Researcher’s Quest to Uncover Hidden Brain Changes
How can clinicians better predict who will transition from relapsing to progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? And can we use imaging techniques to diagnose MS more accurately and to select the right treatments for individual patients? “These are questions people with...
Can a Special Diet Help Those Living With Multiple Sclerosis?
For those living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), can a special diet potentially help slow the progression of the disease? This a question that researchers at the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai are studying, and whether a...
Stories Behind the Science: A New Way Forward With Food Allergies
Thanks to the CAFETERIA study at the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Jackson Esteves, 10, from Bayville, Long Island, is now living a life where being exposed to peanuts no longer triggers a deathly allergic reaction. Mount Sinai researchers are busy preparing next steps to broaden the impact of the encouraging findings of the study.
A Top Mount Sinai Neuroscience PhD Student Writes a Winning Essay as She Proposes Mentorship Initiatives Encouraging a Love for Science and Medicine in Rural America
When Anna Bright, a Neuroscience PhD student at Mount Sinai's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was growing up in rural Tennessee, it was not easy to imagine a career in science. Who would be her role model? "My story is not unique," says Ms. Bright. "Countless...
Mount Sinai Ranked a Global Leader in Health Care Research
In the Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders list released in June, the Mount Sinai Health System earned top marks: among health care institutions in the United States and North America, it was No. 5 for its research output. When compared against health care institutions around the world, Mount Sinai ranked sixth.