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June 2005
NEW YORK — Jim Denn, NYSTAR Director of Operations, participated in a panel entitled "Nanotech Economic Development" at NanoBusiness2005 at the Marriott Financial Hotel in New York, New York on May 23. Nanobusiness 2005 is nanotechnology's foremost business conference designed to provide information required to move research and application development to commercialization, as well as to showcase the ongoing integration of small tech products into the global economy. NYSTAR, a sponsor of this event was able to share its nanotechnology efforts with participants of the conference. TOP
NEW YORK — The New York Biotechnology Association (NYBA) announced the launch of the New York Bioscience Genealogy, a compilation of contributions to the industry by current and former New Yorkers. The genealogy can be accessed via the NYBA web site. NYBA is NYSTAR funded. TOP
NEW YORK — A new vaccine designed at The Rockefeller University boosted a type of fast-responding immune system cell called the natural killer T (NKT) cell in patients with advanced cancer. The study surprised researchers by revealing the ability of these NKT cells to spur other, slower-responding immune cells to go to work. The findings are encouraging researchers at Rockefeller to pursue additional clinical research using the new NKT approach to improve T cell based vaccines against cancer and viral infections. Results of this study are published in the May 2 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — Chemists at New York University have elucidated a mechanism by which organic molecules attach to semiconductor surfaces, a finding that has implications for the semiconductor industry. The industry has sought ways to exploit the attachment process for a variety of purposes. The findings, along with a review of the methodology employed in the study, appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and build on studies published by the same team in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have discovered how the membrane protein that allows us to sense cold works and how this protein becomes desensitized so that one no longer feels the cold. The study, published this week as an advance online publication by Nature Neuroscience, focused on a specific region of the cold receptor which is found in many other receptors, including ones involved in taste, vision and fertilization. Therefore, the findings may have important implications across a wide range of areas. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — A new study from Columbia University Medical Center confirms that women respond as well as men to treatment with drug-eluting stents. Despite the fact that symptomatic coronary disease afflicts men and women equally, only 33 percent of the 1.2 million interventional procedures conducted in the U.S. each year are done on women. The difference is at least partially the result of a belief by doctors that women do not respond as well to the treatments, but the Columbia University Medical Center study, published in today's Journal of the American College of Cardiology, shows that drug eluting stents are just as effective and safe in women as they are in men. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — David M. Stern and Shi Du Yan were awarded a patent for transgenic mice over-expressing amyloid-beta alcohol dehydrogenase in brain as model of alzheimer's disease and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to Trustees of Columbia University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Edward Leonard and Rene Chevray were awarded a patent for the recovery of fetal cells from maternal blood using chaotic advection. The patent was assigned to Trustees of Columbia University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Peter Palese and Robert O'Neill were awarded a patent for the identification and use of antiviral compounds that inhibit interaction of host cell proteins and viral proteins required for viral replication. The patent was assigned to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Detail TOP
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Xue-Ru Wu (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Xue-Ru Wu and Tung-Tien Sun were awarded a patent for transgenic animals as urinary bioreactors for the production of polypeptide in the urine, recombinant DNA construct for kidney-specific expression, and method of using same. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
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Peter Palese (Courtesy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine) |
NEW YORK — Peter Palese, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre and Nicholas Restifo were awarded a patent for recombinant influenza viruses expressing tumor-associated antigens as antitumor agents. The patent was assigned to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the United State of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jonathan Aviv, Shunichi Homma, Marco DiTullio and Steven Corwin were awarded a patent for an optical transesophageal echocardiography probe. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Christina Kabbash, Samuel Silverstein, Howard Shuman and John Blanchard were awarded a patent for antimicrobial activity of gemfibrozil and related compounds and derivatives and metabolites thereof. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University and Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
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Vincent Fischetti (Courtesy of The Rockefeller University) |
NEW YORK — Vincent Fischetti and Lawrence Loomis were awarded a patent for the treatment of Streptococcus Group B infections. The patent was assigned to New Horizons Diagnostic, Corp and The Rockefeller University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Ching-Yung Lin and Shih-Fu Chang were awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for watermarking images. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University. Detail TOP
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Kenneth Perlin (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Kenneth Perlin was awarded a patent for a steerable lightfield display. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Shane Hong was awarded a patent for a method for controlled surface scratch removal and glass resurfacing. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — William Bornmann, Francis Sirotnak, Howard Scher, Ephraim Vidal, Christopher Borella, and David Scheinberg were awarded a patent for the asymmetric synthesis of (S,S,R)-(-)-actinonin and its analogs and uses therefore. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Joseph Bertino, Emine Ercikan-Abali, Debabrata Banerjee, Shin, and Michel Sadelain were awarded a patent for double mutants of dihydrofolate reductase and methods of using same. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jon Thorson was awarded a patent for the glycorandomization and the production of novel erythronolide and coumarin analogs. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
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Ainsley A. Stewart Jr. (Courtesy of Polytechnic University) |
NEW YORK — Polytechnic student Ainsley A. Stewart Jr. has been named a National Collegiate Engineering Award Winner by the United States Achievement Academy. Stewart is a junior, majoring in electrical engineering. Outside the classroom, he has been a peer counselor, managing editor of the school newspaper and is the newly elected Student Council president. In addition, he has been active in the Poly chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), including serving as president. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — The National Academy of Sciences has elected three members of New York University's faculty to its ranks: Stern School of Business Professor Robert Engle; Ruth Lehmann, a professor at NYU School of Medicine's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine; and Margaret Wright, chair of NYU's computer science department. There are now 25 NYU faculty who are members of NAS. See Press Release TOP
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Dr. Philipp Scherer (Courtesy of Yeshiva University) |
NEW YORK — Dr. Philipp Scherer has been named the 2005 recipient of the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The award recognizes research in diabetes that demonstrates particular independence of thought and originality. It is the highest honor given by the association and will be presented on June 13, at the 65th Annual Scientific Sessions of the ADA. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — The Rockefeller University's Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, has received two prestigious awards for this work: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award. Prior to his groundbreaking research, little was known about the components of the biologic system that controls weight, with many scientists questioning the very existence of such a homeostatic system. With leptin and Friedman's subsequent studies, the logic of an entirely new physiologic system has been established with direct implications for the pathophysiology of human obesity. See Press Release TOP
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Arthur W. Martin (Courtesy of Polytechnic University) |
NEW YORK — Polytechnic doctoral candidate Arthur W. Martin was selected by the National Organization of Black Chemist and Chemical Engineers to receive a 2005 graduate fellowship award. Martin's award, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company, recognized his significant contributions to science research with a $10,000 grant. See Press Release TOP
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Dr. Susan Band Horwitz (Courtesy of Yeshiva University) |
NEW YORK — Dr. Susan Band Horwitz, professor and co-chair of molecular pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and one of the nation's foremost cancer researchers, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the country's most prestigious honorary society for scientists. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members, including two Rockefeller University scientists: C. David Allis, Ph.D., Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, and Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease at The Rockefeller University. See Press Release TOP
National Science Foundation Awards
NEW YORK — Jay A. Jorgenson of CUNY City College is the recipient of a $40,600 NSF grant to analyze questions motivated by L functions, Eisenstein series, automorphic forms, and trace formulae. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Szabolcs Marka of Columbia University is the recipient of a $100,000 NSF grant for the direct detection of gravitational waves from various astrophysical sources to open a totally new window on the Universe. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Kim A. Kastens of Columbia University is the recipient of a $67,711 NSF grant for continuing support of an Earth and Environmental science journalism. Detail TOP
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Linda G. Mills (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Linda G. Mills and Roger E. Hartley of New York University are the recipients of a $180,000 NSF grant for a comparison study of batterer intervention and restorative justice programs for domestic violence offenders. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Marc Spiegelman of Columbia University is the recipient of a $131,170 NSF grant to develop a fully coupled theory and mathematical basis to explain fluid flow, dike emplacement, and crustal deformation in deformable/permeable and reactive media using seismic strain data and hydrothermal observations. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Enrique N. Curchitser of Columbia University is the recipient of a $182,974 NSF grant to elucidate mechanisms that determine how physical features influence ecosystem processes. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Dina C. Merrer of Barnard College is the recipient of a $91,000 NSF grant to increase our understanding of the extent that high-energy reactions are governed by dynamic effects. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Erik K. Pedersen of SUNY Binghamton is the recipient of a $63,125 NSF grant for the application of Algebraic Topology to the classification of high dimensional manifolds. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Marianthi Markatou of Columbia University is the recipient of an $83,714 NSF grant to research distances in robust model selection. Detail TOP
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Farshad Khorrami (Courtesy of Polytechnic University) |
NEW YORK — Farshad Khorrami of Polytechnic University is the recipient of a $125,000 NSF grant to develop models for fuel cells and power converters for a parallel grid-connected operation, and study the stability of the system. Detail TOP
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Peter Carnevale (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Peter Carnevale of New York University is the recipient of a $116,017 NSF grant to research group effects in bilateral negotiation. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jeffrey W. Kysar and Y. Lawrence Yao of Columbia University are the recipients of a $300,000 NSF grant to systematically and individually study the effects of anisotropy, heterogeneity and length scale effects in microscale material deformation processes which are encountered in microscale manufacturing. Detail TOP
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Brian B. Schwartz (Courtesy of CUNY Graduate School) |
NEW YORK — Brian B. Schwartz of CUNY Graduate School is the recipient of a $192,656 NSF grant to bring multi-disciplinary science to the general public through innovative methods. Detail TOP
National Institutes of Health Awards
NEW YORK — Zhiwei Chen of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center is the recipient of a $595,316 NIH grant to research a novel model for the study of lung pathogenesis of SARS. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Shonni Silverberg of Columbia University is the recipient of a $515,388 NIH grant to research primary hyperparathyroidism: non-classical manifestations. Detail TOP
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Joyce Anastasi (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — Joyce Anastasi of Columbia University is the recipient of a $568,712 NIH grant to research acupuncture for chronic nausea. Detail TOP
BRONX — William Thornhill of Fordham University is the recipient of a $262,500 NIH grant to research potassium channel gating mechanisms. Detail TOP
BRONX — Leonard Augenlicht of the Montefiore Medical Center is the recipient of a $258,907 NIH grant to research nutritional mechanisms and intestinal tumorigenesis. Detail TOP
BRONX — Missak Haigentz of the Montefiore Medical Center is the recipient of a $224,357 NIH grant to research depsipeptide for the treatment of head and neck cancer. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Michaela Banck of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the recipient of a $128,613 NIH grant to research role of KLF6 in the DNA damage response and apoptosis. Detail TOP
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Edmund Trexler (Courtesy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine) |
NEW YORK — Edmund Trexler of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the recipient of a $389,000 NIH grant to research synaptic pathways in the mammalian retina. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Bryen Jordan of New York University is the recipient of a $125,158 NIH grant to research synapse-to-nucleus signaling components in PSDs. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Eric Tang of New York University is the recipient of a $333,775 NIH grant to research DNA damage and tobacco-induced lung cancer. Detail TOP
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Eric Sobie (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Eric Sobie of New York University is the recipient of a $338,000 NIH grant to research the control of local calcium signaling in the heart. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Tamar Schlick of New York University is the recipient of a $284,695 NIH grant to research mechanisms of DNA polymerases. Detail TOP
FLUSHING — Stephane Boissinot of Queens College is the recipient of a $231,000 NIH grant to research the molecular evolution of flavivirus-resistance in mice. Detail TOP
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Sidney Strickland (Courtesy of The Rockefeller University) |
NEW YORK — Sidney Strickland of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $435,555 NIH grant to research the mechanisms of alcohol-induced tissue injury. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Seth Darst of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $346,108 NIH grant to research the structure/function of the bacterial TRCF. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Elliot Coups of the Sloan-Kettering Institute is the recipient of an $83,700 NIH grant to research patterns of physical activity in lung cancer survivors. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Gloria Li of the Sloan-Kettering Institute is the recipient of a $497,006 NIH grant to research in vivo image guidance for gene-radiation therapy. Detail TOP
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Robert Kaner (Courtesy of Cornell University) |
NEW YORK — Robert Kaner of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $210,000 NIH grant for an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis clinical research network. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Morad Hassani of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $127,710 NIH grant to research the role of Lrp-like proteins in MTB pathogenesis. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jayanta Roychowdhury of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $338,731 NIH grant to research comprehensive gene therapy for mucopolysachharidosis. Detail TOP
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Philipp Scherer (Courtesy of Yeshiva University) |
NEW YORK — Philipp Scherer of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $475,497 NIH grant to research adiponectin and resistin: structure, function and effects. Detail TOP
Small Business Innovation Research /
Small Business Technology Transfer Awards
NEW YORK — Marc Klosner of the Anvik Corporation $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research award to develop a multi-resolution large-area maskless lithography system and process flow for fabricating electronic packages, such as integrated circuit packages, multi-chip modules, and printed circuit boards. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Lei Liu of Lighthouse International is the recipient of a $126,800 NIH grant to research a new technique for central visual field analysis. Detail TOP
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Peter D. Lax (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Peter D. Lax, an emeritus professor at New York University's esteemed Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an alumnus of NYU who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees here, was today awarded the Abel Prize in mathematics by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for "his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions." He is expected to receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway, in Oslo on May 24th. The honor is accompanied by a prize of $980,000. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Financier Leon D. Black has committed $10 million to Mount Sinai School of Medicine to establish the Black Family Stem Cell Institute. The Institute, which will be directed by Gordon Keller, Ph.D., Professor of Gene and Cell Medicine, will integrate research in embryonic stem cells, developmental biology, and adult stem cell biology. "Stem cell research is an emerging and critically important science that has enormous potential to benefit humankind and, as such, is one of Mount Sinai's greatest priorities," says Dennis Charney, M.D., Dean of Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — In mouse models of intestinal cancer, use of an anti-inflammatory drug eliminated all of the cancer-causing risks produced by a high-fat Western-style diet even when several genetic brakes to cancer formation were missing in the animals, say researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — For the first time, researchers have found strong evidence that the virus that causes cervical cancer can be reactivated after being undetectable-a viral revival especially likely in women with impaired immunity due to HIV infection as well as other causes. These findings have major implications for HIV-positive women and others with poor immune status. The study, conducted by scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and colleagues at eight other institutions, appears in the April 20, 2005 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. See Press Release TOP
