Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Advancing Heath Equity With Data: Collaborating With Stakeholders at Mount Sinai Queens
At Mount Sinai, a key pillar in advancing health equity focuses on the collection and use of self-reported patient demographic data to identify gaps in care. The Health Equity Data Assessment (HEDA) team is engaging key stakeholders across the Health System and...
Purple Day: Raising Awareness, Ending Stigma of Epilepsy
Every year on March 26, people and organizations around the world band together in solidarity for Purple Day. They wear purple and host events to raise awareness about epilepsy, with the goal of ending its stigma. For Purple Day this year, we got together experts from...
2024 Jacobi Medallion Award Ceremony
The Mount Sinai Alumni Association and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented accomplished physicians, researchers, educators, and administrators with the 2024 Jacobi Medallion, one of Mount Sinai’s highest awards. The annual ceremony was held Thursday,...
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...