Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Five Specialists in the Field of Psychotic Illnesses Join Mount Sinai’s Department of Psychiatry
The recent recruitment of five specialists to the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has revitalized research, treatment, and prevention efforts in the field of psychotic illnesses and has led to the creation of the Critical...
Blocking a Hormone Builds Bone and Burns Fat At Menopause, a Promising Study Finds
A single hormone whose levels rise at menopause could be responsible for the weight gain and bone loss that many women experience in middle age, and blocking that hormone could help reverse those effects, according to a study in mice that was led by Mone Zaidi, MD,...
Mount Sinai Researcher Featured on CBS News 60 Minutes Broadcast
Samuel Gandy, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was featured in a 60 Minutes report on CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The report explains how the brain disorder that has been diagnosed in many football...
Three Mount Sinai Luminaries Elected To The National Academy of Medicine
Three Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty members recently received the professional honor of being elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM): Neil S. Calman, MD, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; Yasmin...
Rare Tumor May Provide Road Map to Diabetes Therapies
A rare benign tumor may hold the key to regenerating insulin-producing beta cells and lead to novel drugs for patients with diabetes, according to a study led by Andrew F. Stewart, MD, Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute and the Irene and Dr....
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...