Advancing Research for Alzheimer’s Disease
Two physician-scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have each received a 2019 Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant of approximately $150,000 over the next three years for their respective research projects. Ana C. Pereira,...
Reprogramming Retina Cells to Restore Vision
A team of researchers, led by Bo Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has reversed congenital blindness in mice by changing the supportive Müller glia cells in the retina into functional rod...
Lab Discovery Leads to a Remedy
A drug that recently received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of pain associated with the gynecological disorder endometriosis had its genesis two decades ago in the laboratory of Stuart Sealfon, MD,...
Mount Sinai Researcher Wins Young Investigator Award
Immunotherapy has been a game changer in treating some cancers, but it does not work for every patient. Building mathematical models that might predict a patient’s response is central to the work of Benjamin D. Greenbaum, PhD, Assistant Professor of...
Harvard Business Review: How Mount Sinai Health System Fosters Collaboration to Fight Cancer
In an article published in the Harvard Business Review, Joel Dudley, PhD, Mount Sinai Professor in Biomedical Data Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Executive Vice President for Precision Health for the Mount Sinai Health System, and Samir...
$7.6 Million Grant Awarded for Multifaceted Study of Peanut Allergy
When patients are diagnosed with peanut allergy, they often ask two questions: “How much peanut can I eat before I get sick, and how severe will the reaction be?” says Scott Sicherer, MD, Director, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn...
Postdoctoral Award Supports Innovative Research
Two early-career scientists in the fields of Neuroscience, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, recently received the 2018 Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The recipients—Lorna Farrelly, PhD, and Sabrina Tamburini, PhD—will each receive...
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: From Start-up to Innovation Hub
How a new stand-alone medical school grew into one of the nation’s leading centers for scientific and medical advancement. Operating out of a converted garage, it was an ambitious, bold, and risky entrepreneurial venture fueled by dreams of not merely...
Researchers Advance the Understanding of How Viruses May Play a Role in Alzheimer’s Disease
Two strains of human herpesvirus—human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) and human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7)—are found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease at levels up to twice as high as in those without Alzheimer’s, according to findings published June 21, 2018,...
