What You Need to Know About Participating in Autism Research at Mount Sinai
Clinical research is critical to advance our understanding of the causes of neurodevelopmental disorders and to develop effective treatments. The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai maintains an active clinical research portfolio with a...
Computational Psychiatry Postdoctoral Fellow Earns NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Cognitive scientist, computational neuroscientist, well-being researcher—it’s hard to choose only one label to describe Shawn Rhoads, PhD, who recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Computational Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Health...
How One Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipient Is Helping to Expand Our Knowledge of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Kristen Whitney, PhD, whose research in the Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is aimed at uncovering the earliest changes that occur in the aging brain that are causing cells to die, was named the 2024...
Mount Sinai Team Presents Research at World Professional Association for Transgender Health 28th Scientific Symposium
At the recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 28th Scientific Symposium, “A Gender Diverse World in Global Unity,” Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, FACE, Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, and others...
How Did These New York City Teachers Spend Their Summer? In Mount Sinai Labs, Improving Their Science and Teaching Skills
New York City high school teacher Christine Chan, middle school teacher Elsa Rosario, and assistant principal Kathy Pham gained hands-on experience in science content, communications, and teaching at Mount Sinai as part of a Summer Research Program for Science...
Spotlight on Nursing Research: Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Sickle Cell Disease Pain Treatment
The Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at Mount Sinai recently interviewed Charleen Jacobs-McFarlane, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, a Nurse Practitioner in the Mount Sinai Health System Adult Sickle Cell Program, who has published abstracts in Practical Implementation of...
An Aspiring Physician-Scientist Explains How an Award Will Support His Research and His Career
Ayman Mohammad is a scholarly-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in between his third and fourth years of medical school pursuing a Master of Science in Clinical Research. Mr. Mohammad recently received an ASH Medical Student...
Dermatology Resident Awarded a $1 Million Research Grant to Develop a Comprehensive Molecular Map of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Kristina Navrazhina, MD, PhD, a first-year dermatology resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has received a $1 million grant for research to provide a comprehensive molecular map of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)—a skin condition that causes painful...
AI Spotlight: Leveraging Generative AI to Predict ER Admissions
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help radiologists analyze images or doctors make diagnoses with a high degree of accuracy even with traditional machine learning techniques, but they tend to require large amounts of training data to accomplish this. Researchers at the...
