Mount Sinai Hosts Landmark Symposium on Urologic Oncology
The Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently took center stage in the global medical community by hosting the Fifth International Prostate Cancer Symposium and World Congress of Urologic Oncology. The event, held Friday, December...
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD: Overcoming Doubt and Redefining Immunology
About 17 years ago, when Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, had barely started her lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to research macrophage lineages, she was having trouble attracting grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Macrophages are a group of...
Mount Sinai Researchers Share Thoughts on the Promise of mRNA Technology, a Nobel Prize-Winning Science
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to two researchers, Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, for their decades-long work on messenger RNA (mRNA), which ultimately led to the successful development of COVID-19 vaccines that made a huge...
Why a PhD in Biomedical Sciences? Student Ashley Richardson, MSBS, Shares How Mount Sinai Inspired Her to Study Immunology and Microbiology
Among the first-year matriculating PhD students who participated in the 2023 Lab Coat Ceremony at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was Ashley Richardson, MSBS. In the following Q & A, Ms. Richardson, who is...
Lab Coat Ceremony for PhD and MD/PhD Students Marks the Start of New Journeys in Research and Training
Amid cheers and applause, first-year PhD students and third-year MD/PhD students received crisp white lab coats to mark the start of their journeys into academic research and training during a recent ceremony held by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the...
Mount Sinai Researcher Launches Three Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease in Asian Americans
Clara Li, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor, Psychiatry, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has received new grants that will total more than $12 million from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes...
Mount Sinai Receives Five-Year Grant to Support First-of-Its-Kind Translational Science Program for Nurses
Mount Sinai’s Center for Nursing Research and Innovation (CNRI) is developing a first-of-its-kind program that supports Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students from underrepresented minority communities and disadvantaged backgrounds to become experts in translating...
Mount Sinai Researchers Publish First Genome-Wide Analysis of Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States, thought to affect as many as 3 percent of people during their lifetimes. Yet it remains poorly understood. Now, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made...
Could Personalized PSA Levels Enhance Prostate Cancer Screening?
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening has long been the gold standard for detecting prostate cancer at an early stage, aiming to improve treatment outcomes and increase survival rates. But the screening tool is not without its controversies. PSA levels can be...