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NEW YORK — New research on mice from The Rockefeller University shows how the cells responsible for oil production develop, and uncovers clues about how stem cells renew and differentiate. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — In terms of their telomeres, mice are more complicated than humans. That's the finding from a recent study from The Rockefeller University, which shows that mice have two proteins working together to do the job of a single protein in human cells. The findings, published recently in Cell, suggest that the protein complex that protects chromosome ends may have evolved far more rapidly than previously believed. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — For nervous system cells, specialization is a one-way street. But as is often the case in biology, the rules have exceptions. Glial cells - nervous system cells that form a highly specialized insulating sheath called myelin that surrounds nerve fibers - under certain conditions can "de-differentiate," re-enter the cell cycle and revert to an unspecialized state, from which they can repair damaged tissues. Scientists are eager to learn how glial cells accomplish this trick, as it could teach them not only about neurodegenerative diseases, but also have implications for regenerative medicine. Now, using leprosy bacteria, laboratory primary cultures of human and rat glial cells and genetically engineered mice, a team of scientists at The Rockefeller University have uncovered new molecular pathways that lead to demyelination - the breakdown of the myelin sheath - as well as de-differentiation and cell proliferation of mature Schwann cells, the glial cells of the peripheral nervous system. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) announced the launch of a new Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) graduate program with a specialization in computer graphics and animation. As one the foundations of the computer graphics industry, NYIT is now seeking to capitalize on the future of digital art and design as it advances students into the 21st century. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — Over one hundred members of the engineering community gathered at Polytechnic University to examine engineering education and raise the profile of the profession at the Fifth Global Congress on Engineering Education. Polytechnic was honored to be the first host in the United States for this notable week-long conference. The biannual conference is sponsored by the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — The Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative, comprising three leading New York City biomedical research institutions - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University - has announced the first wave of stem cell research projects to be funded through a $50 million gift from The Starr Foundation. See Press Release TOP BRONX — Paul K. Smith was awarded a patent for activated polyethylene glycol compounds. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Stefan Somlo and Toshio Mochizuki were awarded a patent for polycystic kidney disease PKD2 gene and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Shree K. Nayar and Tomoo Mitsunaga were awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for obtaining high dynamic range images. The patent was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and Sony Corporation. Detail TOP BROOKLYN — Kurt Friedrich Brandstadt, Thomas Lane Howard, and Richard A. Gross were awarded a patent for enzyme catalyzed organosilicon carbohydrates. The patent was assigned to Dow Corning Corporation and Polytechnic University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jeffrey M. Friedman, Gwo-Hwa Lee, and Ricardo Proenca were awarded a patent for DB, the receptor for leptin. The patent was assigned to The Rockefeller University. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Eric A. Althoff and Virginia W. Cornish were awarded a patent for a bacterial small-molecule three-hybrid system. The patent was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Michael R. Treat was awarded a patent for ringed forceps. The patent was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Joyce Lustbader was awarded a patent for long-acting follicle stimulating hormone analogues and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Ann Marie Schmidt and David Stern were awarded a patent for extracellular rage binding protein (EN-RAGE) and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Laure Dumoutier, Jamila Louhed, and Jean-Christophe Renauld were awarded a patent for isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding T cell derived inducible factors. The patent was assigned to Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
BRONX — E. Richard Stanley, Ph.D., professor and chair of developmental and molecular biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been selected to receive the 2006 E. Donnall Thomas Prize, presented annually by the American Society of Hematology. The prize, which was established in 1992, recognizes a researcher whose ground-breaking work has contributed greatly to the field of hematology. In conjunction with receiving the honor, Dr. Stanley will present the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture at the Society's annual meeting in December in Orlando, Florida. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Martin Pope, a professor emeritus in chemistry at New York University, has been awarded the Davy Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society for "his pioneering work in the field of molecular semiconductors," the society announced. The Davy Medal, established in 1877, is awarded annually for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry. Previous medalists include Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Pierre and Marie Curie, Henri le Chatelier, and Linus Pauling. The award includes a cash prize of £1000. Detail TOP NEW YORK — The only way to protect the human species from natural and man-made catastrophes is to look toward space, a New York University professor concludes in a new book, The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth (Forge/Doherty, August). William E. Burrows, founder and director of NYU's graduate Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program in the university's journalism department, discusses natural and man-made disasters that could destroy civilization. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Recognizing the limitations of existing composite materials, Dr. Nikhil Gupta, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and recent Polytechnic graduate William Ricci, BS '06, set out to create a new type of composite material with superior structural benefits. The results of their efforts were published in a leading journal of the field, Materials Science and Engineering A. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Polytechnic University is proud to congratulate Stavroula Sofou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, on receiving the Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Translational Research Award. This highly competitive award provides Assistant Professors in Biomedical Engineering Departments across North America with $200,000 of funding over two years. Dr. Sofou was among 23 privileged biomedical engineering researchers who received the award this year. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Polytechnic University President Jerry Hultin appointed Yoshi Okamoto the Director of the Polymer Research Institute (PRI). Okamoto received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Purdue University in 1956 and later came to Poly to pursue his interest in the synthesis, characterization, and application of new functionalized polymeric materials. Detail TOP National Science Foundation Awards NEW YORK — M. Umit Uyar and Jizhong Xiao of CUNY City College are recipients of a $478,968 NSF grant to develop a new generation of mobile robots with wall-climbing and reliable communication capabilities. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Charles M. Newman and Daniel L. Stein of New York University are recipients of a $473,562 NSF grant for mathematical studies of short-ranged spin glasses. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — M. Volkan Otugen, Nirod K. Das, Nikhil Gupta and Valery A. Sheverev of Polytechnic University of New York are recipients of a $398,669 NSF grant for development of a micro-optical stress sensor for fluid mechanics research. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Paul M. Chaikin, David J. Pine, David G. Grier, Paul J. Steinhardt and Salvatore Torquato of New York University are recipients of a $368,148 NSF grant to study photonic quasicrystals and heterostructures. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Oliver Buhler of New York University is the recipient of a $336,145 NSF grant to study stochastic waves and wave-mean interactions. Detail TOP BROOKLYN — Dina Sokol of CUNY Brooklyn College is the recipient of a $321,308 NSF grant to develop approximate tandem repeats database. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ioannis Karatzas of Columbia University is the recipient of a $300,000 NSF grant to study topics in stochastic analysis and optimization. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Diana Murray of Weill Medical College of Cornell is the recipient of a $267,925 NSF grant to study function/structure annotation of lipid binding domains in arabidopsis thaliana proteins: computational modeling of subcellular targeting. Detail TOP BROOKLYN — Shaneen Singh of CUNY Brooklyn College is the recipient of a $195,667 NSF grant to study function/structure annotation of lipid binding domains in arabidopsis thaliana proteins: computational modeling of subcellular targeting. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ilona Kretzschmar of CUNY City College is the recipient of a $150,000 NSF grant to study porous polymer membranes with uniform catalyst distribution for catalytic removal of formaldehyde from indoor air. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Alexander Couzis, Jeffrey F. Morris, M Lane Gilchrist and Charles Maldarelli of CUNY City College are recipients of a $149,833 NSF grant to develop membrane receptor microarrays based on quantum dot barcoded lipobeads. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein, Edward G. Coffman and Predrag R. Jelenkovic of Columbia University are recipients of a $141,046 NSF grant for design, analysis, and control of adaptive sharing mechanisms. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Wenxiong Chen of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $123,365 NSF grant to work on nonlinear problems in convex and conformal geometry. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Vijay Karamcheti and Denis Zorin of New York University are the recipients of a $79,959 NSF grant for interactive parallel platforms for multi-experiment computational studies. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Eitan Grinspun of Columbia University is the recipient of a $65,000 NSF grant for interactive parallel platforms for multi-experiment computational studies. Detail TOP National Institutes of Health Awards
NEW YORK — Adolfo Garcia-Sastre of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $2,081,500 NIH grant to research live attenuated vaccines for epidemic and pandemic flu. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Barbara Murphy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $1,659,900 NIH grant to research genomics of chronic renal allograft rejection. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Kendall Smith of Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $1,440,300 NIH grant to research new strategies to prevent death from influenza. Detail TOP NEW YORK — David Cooper of the American Foundation for AIDS Research is the recipient of a $649,600 NIH grant to research the Asia-Pacific HIV observational database (aphod). Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Ehud Kaplan of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $423,800 NIH grant to research what determines thalamic spatio-temporal properties. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Michelle Gong of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $419,600 NIH grant to research surrogate consent in research. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Franklin Costantini of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $397,900 NIH grant to research genetic analysis of pea3 transcription factors and kidney development. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $393,100 NIH grant to research morphogenesis of the paraxial mesoderm in mice. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Derek Tan of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $365,600 NIH grant to research siderophore biosynthesis inhibitors as new antibiotics for biodefense. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Heather Duffy of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $341,900 NIH grant to research cytokine induction of claudin-1 in epicardial border zone of ischemic heart. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ching-Hwa Sung of Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $336,000 NIH grant to research cytoskeleton's role in RPE's structure and function. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Annette Hernandez of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $331,700 NIH grant to research parent and child trauma family intervention services. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Raphael Clynes of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $322,400 NIH grant to research pathogenic role of islet cell abs in autoimmune diabetes. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — David Ron of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $322,300 NIH grant to research drug-like small molecule modulators of the integrated stress response. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Clark Hung of Columbia University is the recipient of a $318,800 NIH grant to research chondrocyte mechanotransduction using microfluidics. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Christoph Wiedenmayer of the New York State Psychiatric Institute is the recipient of a $305,100 NIH grant to research the prefrontal cortex: responses to threat in early life. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Rafael Mira-Y-Lopez of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $300,900 NIH grant to research oncogeneses and retinoid chemoprevention. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Elizabeth Miller of Columbia University is the recipient of a $297,700 NIH grant to research ER export and the quality control checkpoint during membrane protein biogenesis. Detail TOP NEW YORK — David Owens of Columbia University is the recipient of a $285,800 NIH grant to research novel transcriptional regulators of angiogenesis. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Xue-Ru Wu of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $277,200 NIH grant to research bladder-specific knockout and gene expression. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Irina Derkatch of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $270,400 NIH grant to research investigation of the establishment of the prion state. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ming-Ming Zhou of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $259,700 NIH grant to research structure and mechanism of pathogen set domain. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Bedrich Mosinger of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $254,300 NIH grant for monitoring chemosensory responses of glp-1 enteroendocrine cells. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Chenjian Li of Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $226,800 NIH grant to research mouse models and lrrk2 kinase substrates for park8-parkinson's disease. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ila Singh of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $226,300 NIH grant to research new approach to study West Nile virus fusion into cells. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Richard Baer of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $225,200 NIH grant to research checkpoint functions of the brca1/bard1 complex. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Chuanju Liu of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $223,100 NIH grant to research the role of p204 in osteogenesis. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Alex Federman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University is the recipient of a $214,900 NIH grant to research health insurance navigators for the low-income elderly. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Ethel Cesarman of Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $211,800 NIH grant to research identifying small molecule inhibitors of kshv vflip-traf2 interactions. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Mary Hatten of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $211,300 NIH grant to research the role of mpar6 polarity cns neuronal migration. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Greg Phillips of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $190,700 NIH grant to research recognition coding at cns synapses. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Jonathan Mamou of the Riverside Research Institute is the recipient of an $186,800 NIH grant to research very-high-frequency ultrasound imaging with coded signals and annular arrays. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Mary Jane Potash of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences is the recipient of a $181,600 NIH grant to research mode of virus transmission into the brain in a mouse model of hiv-infection. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Eduardo David Leonardo of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $176,900 NIH grant to research hippocampal neurogenesis: mechanisms of antidepressant action. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Luciano D'Adamio of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $176,400 NIH grant to research novel animal models of familial British, Danish and Alzheimer's dementia. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Tracy Dennis of Hunter College is the recipient of a $155,100 NIH grant to research neurophysiological predictors of child emotion regulation. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Junichi Sadoshima of Vasade Biosciences, Inc. is the recipient of a $145,500 NIH grant to research prevention of neointimal thickening by mst1. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Joseph Guttenplan of New York University is the recipient of a $145,400 NIH grant to research mutagenicity of tobacco smoke in human cell co-cultures. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Nai-Kong Cheung of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $137,900 NIH grant to develop a novel set of molecular markers to measure metastatic neuroblastoma. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Hanga Galfalvy of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $135,000 NIH grant to research statistical methods for predicting suicide attempts. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Karen Hurley of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $134,500 NIH grant to research multiple risks, decisions and behaviors in the genomic era. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Archie Tse of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $133,900 NIH grant to research targeting cell cycle checkpoints in cancer therapeutics. Detail TOP NEW YORK — Tilla Worgall of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $124,300 NIH grant for sphingolipids: regulators of srebp and lipid metabolism. Detail TOP Small Business Innovation Research/ NEW YORK — Jonathan Kaufman of Cyberlogic, Inc. is the recipient of a $97,000 NIH grant to develop a new 2d array system for ultrasonic bone assessment. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 16 grants totaling $287 million to create an international network of highly collaborative research consortia focused on accelerating the pace of HIV vaccine development. The grants will support a range of innovative approaches for designing an effective HIV vaccine, and bring together more than 165 investigators from 19 countries to tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges facing the field. Among the recipients is David D. Ho, scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University. Ho received $24.7 million to lead a consortium of investigators on a project titled "Harnessing Dendritic Cells and Innate Immune Activation Signals to Guide HIV-1 Vaccine Development." See Press Release TOP BRONX — Responding to the rising prevalence of methamphetamine abuse throughout New York State, and the potential dire consequences for the public health and safety, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Division of Substance Abuse has been awarded $60,000 by the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to establish methamphetamine prevention and awareness initiatives for Bronx communities. See Press Release TOP BRONX — Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have leveraged the results of their research into tuberculosis to craft a tool for unlocking the secrets of another of the world's leading infectious killers-malaria. See Press Release TOP NEW YORK — Researchers from The Rockefeller University have uncovered how a widely used yet little-understood therapy for autoimmune diseases like asthma and lupus works. The treatment, called IVIG, is effective because a small fraction of the antibodies it contains are affixed with a single sugar that gives the antibodies a protective, anti-inflammatory effect. And now that they understand how it works, they may be able to turn an adequate treatment into something that's 100 times more effective and chemically pure. See Press Release TOP |
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