College of Medicine to Partner with Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai, and Renaissance School of Medicine astatine Stony Brook University
, /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a five-year, $6.6 million assistance to pb a New York-based consortium of aesculapian schools to bid young scientists successful kidney, urology, and hematology research.
The assistance establishes the New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training successful Kidney, Urological, and Hematological Research, oregon NYC Train KUHR (pronounced "cure"), bringing unneurotic experts successful probe and acquisition from Einstein, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai, and Renaissance School of Medicine astatine Stony Brook University.
"With NYC Train KUHR, much than 100 scientists skilled successful kidney, urologic, and hematologic (KUH) illness probe volition enactment unneurotic to mentor pre- and post-doctoral fellows successful interdisciplinary probe involving these specialties," said Michal Melamed, M.D., M.S., the grant's pb main researcher and prof of medicine, of pediatrics, and of epidemiology & colonisation wellness astatine Einstein and a nephrologist astatine Montefiore Health System. "These specialties are profoundly intertwined and it's captious to bid a caller procreation of investigators who tin comfortably navigate these fields and pb probe to amended the attraction and prime of beingness for radical with KUH diseases.
"Many of the diseases the trainees volition absorption on—such arsenic sickle compartment illness and kidney disease—disproportionately impact Black and Hispanic people, and different marginalized groups," continued Dr. Melamed. "We are peculiarly hopeful that advancing this interdisciplinary grooming volition payment our Bronx community."
NYC Train KUHR is the lone NIH-funded consortium focused connected KUH illness probe and grooming successful the Northeast and 1 of lone 7 nationally. Trainees selected to enactment successful the programme volition person astatine slightest 2 mentors, who volition assistance usher and pass their research.
"Many of the diseases of these 3 assemblage systems effect successful complications that interaction however the others function, truthful it's imperative to scope crossed disciplines to efficaciously dainty disease," said co-principal researcher Jonathan Barasch, M.D., prof of medicine, of pathology, and of compartment biology astatine Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "While this programme is focused connected grooming aboriginal vocation physicians and scientists, we expect that the participating module members volition besides payment from accrued collaborations crossed institutions."
The caller assistance builds connected decades of established grooming programs astatine immoderate of the participating institutions. "Individually, our institutions person awesome way records successful basal science, translational, and objective probe achievements wrong these conditions. Together our strengths are magnified, and we tin stock our corporate expertise with caller trainees who volition proceed to marque advances successful the field," said Kirk Campbell, M.D., prof of medicine and co-principal researcher astatine Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai.
NYC Train KUHR volition enlistee up to 10 trainees each twelvemonth who volition person opportunities to enactment nether mentors from assorted institutions, entree information and technological models from past and existent studies, and be regular networking and nonrecreational improvement presentations.
The assistance besides volition alteration the instauration of an undergraduate summertime programme for students from groups historically underrepresented successful medicine who are funny successful kidney, urology, oregon hematology research. "A cardinal precedence is enriching the diverseness of physicians and researchers successful our fields," said co-principal researcher Sandeep Mallipattu, M.D., main of the part of nephrology and hypertension astatine Renaissance School of Medicine astatine Stony Brook University.
Other co-principal investigators and task leaders connected the assistance see Frederick Kaskel, M.D., Ph.D., and Kelvin Davies, Ph.D., astatine Einstein; Wadie Bahou, M.D., astatine Renaissance School of Medicine astatine Stony Brook University; Nancy Green, M.D., astatine Columbia University Irving Medical Center; and Margaret Baron, M.D., Ph.D., astatine Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai.
The grant, titled "New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training successful Kidney, Urological and Hematological Research (NYC Train KUHR)," was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), portion of the NIH. (1U2CDK129502 and 1TL1DK136048)
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is 1 of the nation's premier centers for research, aesculapian acquisition and objective investigation. During the 2022-23 world year, Einstein is location to 740 M.D. students, 194 Ph.D. students, 118 students successful the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and astir 225 postdoctoral probe fellows. The College of Medicine has much than 1,900 full-time module members located connected the main field and astatine its clinical affiliates. In 2022, Einstein received much than $202 million successful awards from the National Institutes of Health. This includes the backing of major research centers at Einstein successful cancer, aging, intelligence improvement disorders, diabetes, objective and translational research, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas wherever the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts see developmental encephalon research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to trim and destruct taste and radical wellness disparities. Its concern with Montefiore, the University Hospital and world aesculapian halfway for Einstein, advances objective and translational probe to accelerate the gait astatine which caller discoveries go the treatments and therapies that payment patients. For much information, delight visit einsteinmed.edu, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and presumption america on YouTube.
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