Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Leader in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Research Is Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Andrea E. Dunaif, MD, a renowned physician-scientist in diabetes and women’s health, has joined the Mount Sinai Health System as Chief of the Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease. In her role, Dr. Dunaif seeks to build on...
Researchers Find Higher Infant Morbidity and Mortality Rates Among New York City Hospitals
Elizabeth Howell, MD, Director of the Women’s Health Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses her recent research that shows even though neonatal care has improved substantially over the past decade, racial and ethnic disparities in...
SinaInnovations Highlights Era of Discovery in Cancer
A keynote address by Carl H. June, MD—whose research has led to a therapy that can keep a leukemia patient cancer-free for years after a single infusion—contributed to a sense of excitement and immediacy at the sixth annual SinaInnovations conference. Cancer was the...
Third Annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards
A large and diverse group of individuals and teams from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for their contributions to research, technology, medicine, and health care at the third annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, held on Monday, October 16, in...
Health Hackathon Seeks Cancer Care Solutions
SinaInnovations hosted the second annual Health Hackathon, a two-day competition on Friday, October 13, and Saturday, October 14, that drew 90 participants, including students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions, plus engineering...
Two Scientists Receive Robin Chemers Neustein Award
Early-career scientists Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD, and Zoi Karoulia, PhD, innovative investigators in the fields of neuroscience and cancer, respectively, were named recipients of the 2017 Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The fellowship, intended...
Two Mount Sinai Institutes to Join $215 Million Public-Private Partnership to Increase Patients’ Immunotherapy Success
The Tisch Cancer Institute and the Precision Immunology Institute at Mount Sinai Health System are part of a $215 million public-private Cancer Moonshot research collaboration launched by the National Institutes of Health and 11 leading pharmaceutical companies. “We...
A Robust Call to Action in Stemming Global Pollution
For decades, families in Dong Mai, Vietnam, recycled used car batteries in their backyards and kitchens without any environmental controls. In Sovetskoe, Kyrgyzstan, homes, playgrounds, and schools were constructed with red sand that contained high levels of lead...
Urology Department Hosts International Symposium
More than 500 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals recently attended the 2nd International Prostate Cancer Symposium and Inaugural World Congress of Urologic Oncology at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The three-day event in September was hosted by the Milton...