Examining the Effects of Immunotherapy on Cancer
Using a collection of sophisticated single-cell technologies, scientists at the Mount Sinai Health System have launched an early-stage clinical trial that examines the effects of immunotherapy on hepatocellular carcinoma, non-small-cell lung...
Advancing the Study of Brain and Memory
Denise Cai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is the recipient of a 2019 National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award to continue her novel research into the brain and memory. The Award was...
A Thank You to Clinical Trial Participants
Physician-scientists from Mount Sinai Beth Israel and The Michael J. Fox Foundation highlighted new treatments and research in Parkinson’s disease during a “Thankfest” symposium and lunch in October. The event was held to recognize the valuable contributions of 60...
First Place for Neurosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received the first place award for most accepted abstracts by residents at the 2019 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, which took place in October in San Francisco. The...
Novel Cancer Immunotherapies Show Promise
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are pioneering two novel approaches to cancer immunotherapy that are promising for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other solid tumors, which have been stubbornly resistant to therapies such...
Gene Variant Is Strongly Linked to Heart Failure
A genetic variation that is prevalent in people of African or Hispanic/Latino ancestry was significantly associated with heart failure in a study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Perelman School of Medicine...
Mount Sinai Leads in Noninvasive Thyroid Treatment
Mount Sinai has become one of the few health systems in the nation to offer a new minimally invasive procedure to treat noncancerous thyroid nodules. The procedure, called radiofrequency ablation (RFA), offers eligible patients a quicker recovery and minimal scarring,...
Universal Flu Vaccine Moves Closer to Fruition
The quest to develop a universal influenza vaccine that would be administered only once or twice in an individual’s lifetime and cover every strain of the virus moved closer to becoming a reality in October, when researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
SinaInnovations 2019: A Close-up Look at Artificial Intelligence
What is the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, and how is it changing the practice of health care as we know it? That was the subject of the eighth annual SinaInnovations Conference, held Tuesday, October 15, and Wednesday, October 16, in Stern...