November 22, 2022
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The Renaissance School of Medicine astatine Stony Brook University volition beryllium portion of a caller aesculapian schoolhouse consortium successful the New York metro portion to bid young scientists successful kidney, urology and hematology probe — important areas successful medicine that impact peculiar grooming and the request for much research, arsenic kidney illness and conditions specified arsenic sickle compartment illness impact millions and often disproportionally successful marginalized groups.
Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu co-leads the recently formed consortium. Credit: Jeanne Neville, Stony Brook MedicineThe aesculapian probe grooming initiative, called the New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training successful Kidney, Urological, and Hematological Research (NYC Train KUHR), is supported by a five-year $6.6 cardinal assistance from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Renaissance School of Medicine volition co-lead this programme to supply an accidental to postgraduate students and post-doctoral objective and probe fellows for NIH-sponsored probe grooming successful these disciplines. Albert Einstein College of Medicine (co-lead and the NIH tract contact) volition spouse with Stony Brook, arsenic good arsenic the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai and Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
“This caller NIH-funded programme volition supply interdisciplinary probe grooming successful hematology, urology and nephrology for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows astatine our schoolhouse of medicine and the different New York institutions,” said Peter Igarashi, MD, a nephrologist and dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine. “Our enactment for this highly competitory grant reflects our corporate expertise successful kidney, blood, and urologic disorders, and our way grounds of acquisition innovation to our aboriginal vocation scientists.”
NYC Train KUHR volition enlistee up to 10 trainees each year. The trainees volition enactment nether mentors from assorted institutions, person entree to information from existent and past studies, and be regular networking and nonrecreational presentations from the applicable aesculapian disciplines.
Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, main of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension astatine Stony Brook, volition co-lead the consortium.
“A cardinal precedence of NYC Train KUHR is to enrich the diverseness of researchers successful our fields,” said Dr. Mallipattu, who notes that a large portion of this grooming inaugural is to see trainees from groups historically underrepresented successful medicine.
For much position and details astir the consortium, spot this press merchandise from Einstein.
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