The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation at Mount Sinai West Hosts Annual Tristate Regional Simulation Symposium May 17
The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) at Mount Sinai West is hosting its pioneering annual Tristate Regional Simulation Symposium. The symposium is scheduled for Friday, May 17, from 11 am to 2 pm, using a live online format. The theme for this eighth...
AI Spotlight: Predicting Risk of Death in Dementia Patients
Dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder, commonly known to affect cognitive function—including memory and reasoning. It is also a factor contributing to death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dementia is currently the seventh leading...
First Gene Therapies Approved for Sickle Cell Disease: What Do They Spell for Patients?
In December 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of two gene therapies for sickle cell disease—the first of their kind for the condition.
Mount Sinai Hosts Landmark Symposium on Urologic Oncology
The Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently took center stage in the global medical community by hosting the Fifth International Prostate Cancer Symposium and World Congress of Urologic Oncology. The event, held Friday, December...
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD: Overcoming Doubt and Redefining Immunology
About 17 years ago, when Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, had barely started her lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to research macrophage lineages, she was having trouble attracting grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Macrophages are a group of...
Mount Sinai Researchers Share Thoughts on the Promise of mRNA Technology, a Nobel Prize-Winning Science
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to two researchers, Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, for their decades-long work on messenger RNA (mRNA), which ultimately led to the successful development of COVID-19 vaccines that made a huge...
Why a PhD in Biomedical Sciences? Student Ashley Richardson, MSBS, Shares How Mount Sinai Inspired Her to Study Immunology and Microbiology
Among the first-year matriculating PhD students who participated in the 2023 Lab Coat Ceremony at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was Ashley Richardson, MSBS. In the following Q & A, Ms. Richardson, who is...
Lab Coat Ceremony for PhD and MD/PhD Students Marks the Start of New Journeys in Research and Training
Amid cheers and applause, first-year PhD students and third-year MD/PhD students received crisp white lab coats to mark the start of their journeys into academic research and training during a recent ceremony held by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the...
Mount Sinai Researcher Launches Three Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease in Asian Americans
Clara Li, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor, Psychiatry, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has received new grants that will total more than $12 million from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes...