Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Innovators in Psychiatry
A group of medical students and residents from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently won the $10,000 grand prize at the Psychiatry Innovation Lab competition, which was held at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual...
Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, at TEDMED 2018: How to Improve Care for Pregnant Women
Every year, between 700 and 900 women suffer a pregnancy-related death in the United States. Even more concerning is that a significant portion of these deaths are preventable.In addition, for every death, more than a hundred women experience a severe...
Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD, a Leader in the Study of Viruses, Is Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD, Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, and the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Microbiology, and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been...
Mount Sinai Renames Department of Neuroscience
It has been a time of outstanding achievement for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Department of Neuroscience—worthy of a celebration.On Wednesday, May 8, Mount Sinai leadership, benefactors, faculty, and staff attended a reception at the Hess...
Research Uncovers How Serotonin in the Nucleus Can Regulate Gene Expression Within Brain Cells
Serotonin, a powerful chemical that sends signals between nerve cells in the brain, has long been thought to play a key role in processes such as appetite, mood, and sleep. Now, research by neuroscientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
Joining Forces to Create a New Digital Health Institute
The Mount Sinai Health System and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), a leading data science research and educational institution in Germany, have formed an affiliation that will combine their expertise in health care delivery, biomedical and digital...
Electronic Lab Notebook for Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai now provides an Electronic Lab Notebook service for all researchers through an enterprise license agreement with LabArchives. The service is a secure, cloud-based software designed to replace paper notebooks and...
Neanderthal Teeth Yield Insights Into Past and Present
Neanderthals became extinct more than 20,000 years ago, but an innovative study of teeth by an international team, including researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has uncovered details about their lives that may lead to new insights into human...
$3 Million Gift to Advance Study of Crohn’s Disease
The Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust has committed $3 million to a center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that is focused on advancing the understanding of Crohn’s disease and creating personalized medicine for its treatment. The trust donated $1...