Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Huffington Post: Hardships, and New Hope, for Sickle Cell Patients
Promising new treatments for Sickle cell disease are on the horizon for this chronic disease, which, though not immediately fatal, can cause complications that dramatically affect patients’ day-to-day lives. Learn more in this post from the Huffington Post by Jeffrey...
Listen to WNYC News: Dr. Peter Palese Talks about his Quest to Fight the Flu
At Icahn School of Medicine, a bunch of ferrets may be getting a better version of the flu vaccine than you are. The ferrets are part of a lab run by Dr. Peter Palese, a microbiologist who has dedicated his career to fighting influenza. Palese said he knows all too...
Mount Sinai Establishes 3D Printing Services for Clinicians and Researchers
Mount Sinai Health System today announced the creation of the Medical Modeling Core, a collaboration led by the Department of Neurosurgery, where clinicians can confer and order 3D models for their cases. Virtual reality, simulation, and 3D printing services will be...
SinaInnovations Focuses on Therapeutic Discovery
The increasingly important role that academic medical centers play in the discovery of treatments for human diseases was the central theme of the Fifth Annual SinaInnovations conference held Tuesday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 26, at the Icahn School of...
Early Intervention May Prevent Irreversible Damage in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Guest blog written by Ryan Ungaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center. More than 3 million people in the United States alone suffer from inflammatory...
First MedMaker Challenge Competition Fosters Innovation
SinaInnovations hosted its first MedMaker Challenge this year, a two-day competition to “democratize innovation” that drew 75 participants—including students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions, and engineering and software...
Second Annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards
Nineteen individuals from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for their contributions to research, technology, medicine, and health care at the second annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, which was held on Monday, October 24, in conjunction with the...
Two Mount Sinai Luminaries Are Elected To the National Academy of Medicine
Two prominent researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Alison M. Goate, DPhil, and Lynne D. Richardson, MD, recently were elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, formerly named the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Goate is the Willard...
Newly Named Humanism and Ethics Series
For more than 20 years, the Department of Medicine has organized a lecture series focused on ethics and the compassionate care of patients. This year, the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award and Lecture in Humanism and Ethics began a new and integrative approach to...