Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Paying Tribute to a Giant in Medicine
Family, friends, and colleagues of the late James F. Holland, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neoplastic Diseases at The Tisch Cancer Institute, gathered in May at the Mount Sinai Health System to celebrate his work as a renowned physician-scientist who...
Raising Awareness for Biomedical Research
Seven researchers and veterinarians from the Mount Sinai Health System discussed humane animal research at a panel held at Hatch Auditorium to commemorate Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) on Thursday, April 19. They joined more than 110 other...
Barbara Murphy, MD, Honored by Her Alma Mater in Ireland
Barbara Murphy, MD, Chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was a featured speaker at the May 2018 graduation ceremony of her alma mater, the School of Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland...
Novel Product to Help Patients at Risk for Kidney Disease
Steven G. Coca, DO, and Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, nephrologists in the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System, have invented an artificial intelligence-based prognostic scoring system that is designed to identify patients at high risk...
Third Episode of Mount Sinai Future You
The third episode of Mount Sinai Future You features a 22-year-old man from Idaho with a rare facial tumor called a lymphangioma. Following two dozen unsuccessful surgeries, he sought treatment from Gregory Levitin, MD, Director of Vascular Birthmarks and...
Conference Addresses Lack of Research on Female Brain Injury
The Friedman Brain Institute (FBI) in May cosponsored a program with the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine that focused attention on the little-known and -discussed incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and...
Fast-Tracking Research Discoveries to Help Patients
More than 100 researchers, venture capital firms, and entrepreneurs attended the launch event at Davis Auditorium on Thursday, April 12, for the Mount Sinai Innovation Partners accelerator fund that will provide commercial and business-development support...
Second Episode of Mount Sinai Future You
The second episode of Mount Sinai Future You features a patient who suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, one of the most devastating forms of stroke, and who shares his miraculous recovery after neurosurgeons saved his life using a new surgical technique...
Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief at Mount Sinai to Lead the American Association for Thoracic Surgery
David H. Adams, MD, the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System, was named President of the American...