Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
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...
Two Researchers Receive Robin Chemers Neustein Award
Hélène Salmon, PhD, and Lara Manganaro, PhD, are the recipients of the 2016 Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, which was created to encourage and support female research scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Salmon works in...
Second-Hand Smoke More Pervasive Than People Think
Many people who are exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke on a day-to-day basis do not realize it, according to newly published research by physicians at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Yet exposure to this carcinogen carries an increased risk for heart...