Renowned Immunologist Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is Elected to the National Academy of Science
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, a pioneering immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to the National Academy of Science (NAS), an honor that recognizes her transformational contributions to the fields of myeloid cell biology...
Did SARS-CoV-2 Emerge From Nature or a Lab?
Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerge in the human population spontaneously or was it engineered in a laboratory? Several months into this pandemic, there are still many more questions than answers about this stealthy new coronavirus that has commandeered the...
Mount Sinai Develops ‘Pseudo Virus’ to Assess the Effectiveness of Antibodies
As governments make plans to reopen their economies and seek reliable ways to ensure their populations can get back to work safely, high-quality antibody testing has emerged as the only way to truly determine which individuals may be protected against the...
Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Faculty Team Up to Advance Immunology Research on COVID-19
The unprecedented generation of non-peer-reviewed scientific information about COVID-19 in just a few months helped galvanize more than 50 members of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai into forming a group to...
Mount Sinai’s Antibody Test for COVID-19 Receives Emergency Use Authorization from FDA
A renowned team of virologists, pathologists, and clinicians at the Mount Sinai Health System developed, validated, and launched a blood test for COVID-19 antibodies that received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization...
Preliminary Case Series Leads to New Questions About the Disease Progression of COVID-19 in Patients with Blood Clots in the Lung
A small, preliminary case series led by physicians at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that five severely ill patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus responded to the blood-clot-busting drug tPA when it was introduced as a life-saving measure....
Mount Sinai Turns Hundreds of Machines for Sleep Apnea into Hospital Ventilators, Shares Instructions Worldwide
A team of pulmonologists, anesthesiologists, sleep and critical care specialists, and medical students at the Mount Sinai Health System are reconfiguring hundreds of donated machines that are typically used at home for sleep apnea and deploying them as...
SARS-CoV2: How a Low-Powered Virus Turns Deadly
Early laboratory tests show the SARS-CoV2 virus, which leads to COVID-19, behaves very differently from the flu or common respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in that it travels under the radar and enters human and animal cells quietly, eliciting a...
Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, Receives a Lifetime Honor
Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, Director of the Mount Sinai Bone Program, and Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...