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May 2006
NEW YORK — Polytechnic University's NYSTAR-supported Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) was awarded a $1.6 million NYSTAR grant to further develop cybercrime detection and prevention with companies such as Verizon, Kodak, Lucent Technologies, AT&T Labs Research and the Securities Industry Automation Corp. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — Laura Kaufman, a NYSTAR James D. Watson Investigator Program award winner presented a speech entitled "Do Probes Sample and/or Alter Heterogeneities in Glasses?" at the April 11, 2006 session of the New York Nanoscience Discussion Group. Sessions feature three 30-minute presentations on nanoscience, one each with strong orientation in biology, chemistry, and physics/applied mathematics. Presentations will be focused on discussion of recent work, although speakers will place the work in a context understandable to a broad audience. TOP
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Barry Coller (Courtesy of The Rockefeller University) |
NEW YORK — Studying receptors on the surface of blood platelets, sticky cells that cause blood to clot, has given one researcher at The Rockefeller University new insight into potential causes and treatments for certain cardiovascular diseases. Barry Coller, David Rockefeller Professor and the university's physician-in-chief, has been focusing on a rare disorder known as Glanzmann thrombasthenia, in which platelets lack one of two proteins. Together, the two proteins - aIIb and ß3 - create a cellular receptor that's involved in aggregating blood cells for coagulation; analyzing patients with the disorder previously led Coller to develop a novel therapy for heart-attack and stroke victims that targets this receptor. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — A primitive third eye found in many types of lizards, used to detect changes in light and dark and to regulate the production of certain hormones, may help explain how vision evolved and how signals are transmitted from the eyes to the brain, according to new research by scientists at The Rockefeller University and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — An important step in developing a treatment for viral diseases is for scientists to culture live viruses from infected patients, but the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major cause of chronic and sometimes fatal liver disease, has proven to be particularly wily. For many years scientists have struggled with an inability to efficiently culture HCV in the laboratory. Now, researchers at The Rockefeller University have overcome several obstacles and successfully shown that a strain of HCV they created in the laboratory, which can efficiently be cultured in vitro, is also infectious in animals. The findings, reported in the March 7 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will enable scientists to study the life cycle of HCV at the molecular level and develop better treatments for this disease. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — There are 10 billion neurons in the human brain, with 10 trillion connections, and in this complex web, every bit of information must be routed along the correct path. But despite years of study, scientists don't fully understand how the body forms the neural pathways that route that information. Now, scientists at The Rockefeller University have discovered that proteins in the ubiquitous Wnt family are vital for charting nerve growth and direction of information flow along a neuron. In fact, the absence of certain Wnt proteins in worms can alter a nerve so substantially that it grows in reverse. See Press Release TOP
BRONX — Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have synthesized chemicals that are up to 10 times more effective than isoniazid, the leading anti-tuberculosis drug. The finding could lead to badly needed new drugs for combating tuberculosis bacteria, which each year kill an estimated 2.4 million people worldwide. The study appears in the March issue of Chemistry & Biology. See Press Release TOP
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Darcy Kelley (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced that Columbia Professor of Biological Sciences Darcy Kelley and her faculty colleagues in the Frontiers of Science course have won a half-million dollar award to improve undergraduate science education. The award is a renewal of Professor Kelley's 2002 million dollar Howard Hughes Professorship grant which supported development of this new course in the Core Curriculum of Columbia College. See Press Release TOP
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Jerome B. Posner (Courtesy of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research) |
NEW YORK — Jerome B. Posner, Josep O. Dalmau and Myrna R. Rosenfeld were awarded a patent for the Ma family polypeptides and anti-Ma antibodies. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Stewart Shuman was awarded a patent for topoisomerase-based reagents and methods for molecular cloning. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Sophie Lucas, Charles De Smet and Thierry Boon-Falleur were awarded a patent for the isolated nucleic acid molecule coding for tumor rejection antigen precursors MAGE-C1 and MAGE-C2 and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Philip N. Benfey, Yrjo Helariutta, and Ari Pekka Mahonen were awarded a patent for wooden leg gene, promoter and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Lawrence Loomis and Vincent Fischetti were awarded a patent for nasal spray for treating streptococcal infections. The patent was assigned to New Horizons Diagnostics Corp and The Rockefeller University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Philip Ordway Livingston and Friedhelm Helling were awarded a patent for ganglioside-KLH conjugate vaccines plus OS-21. The patent was assigned to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Detail TOP
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Ann Marie Schmidt (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — Ann Marie Schmidt and David Stern were awarded a patent for extracellular novel 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
BRONX — Stanley M. Crain and Kei-fei Shen were awarded a patent for the method of simultaneously enhancing analgesic potency and attenuating dependence liability caused by morphine and other bimodally-acting opioid agonists. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Timothy J. Cardozo and John C. Pui were awarded a patent for the method of orally treating inflammatory skin conditions with prodrugs of 5-fluorouracil. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
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James W. Canary (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — James W. Canary and Suffen Zahn were awarded a patent for electron-driven chirality switches. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Barasch, Juan A. Oliver, and Jun Yang were awarded a patent for the method of inducing formation of kidney epithelia from mesenchymal precursors. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
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Leslie S. Prichep (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Leslie S. Prichep was awarded a patent for the system and method for fetal brain monitoring. The patent was assigned to New York University. Detail TOP
BRONX — Seetharama A. Acharya and Belur N. Manjula were awarded a patent for size enhanced hemoglobins: surface decoration and crosslinking of the protein with polyoxy alkylene glycols. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Charles Hailey was awarded a patent for the method and apparatus for material identification using characteristic radiative emissions. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
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Anthony A. Sauvé (Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine) |
BRONX — Anthony A. Sauvé and Vern L. Schramm were awarded a patent for inhibitors of ADP-ribosyl transferases, cyclases, and hydrolases. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Maureen Ward and Arthur Bank were awarded a patent for RD114-based retroviral packaging cell line and related compositions and methods. The patent was assigned to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Dusan Bartsch, Eric R. Kandel, and Mirella Ghirardi were awarded a patent for method for enhancing long-term memory in a subject and uses thereof. The patent was assigned to the trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Detail TOP
BRONX — Richard Hubert Furneaux, Peter Charles Tyler, and Vern L. Schramm were awarded a patent for a process for preparing inhibitors of nucleoside metabolism. The patent was assigned to Industrial Research Limited and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
BRONX — Stanley M. Crain and Ke-fei Shen were awarded a patent for method of simultaneously enhancing analgesic potency and attenuating dependence liability caused by morphine and other bimodally-acting opioid agonists. This patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
BRONX — Seetharama A. Acharya and Belur N. Manjula were awarded a patent for size enhanced hemoglobins: surface decoration and crosslinking of the protein with polyoxy alkylene glycols. The patent was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Detail TOP
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Benjamin Galper (Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine) |
BRONX — Benjamin Galper, a fourth-year student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been elected national chair of the American Medical Association Medical Student Section for 2006-2007. The AMA is a professional organization that offers opportunities for community service, advocacy, and health policy for both physicians and medical students who wish to take part in shaping the ways in which American health care is delivered. See Press Release TOP
BRONX — Many studies show that tweaking a single gene can extend life span in animal models. In a new study, Drs. Gil Atzmon and Nir Barzilai at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that people harbor alleles-alternative forms of a gene-that confer the same sort of longevity advantage. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — New York University's Alexej Jerschow, an assistant professor of chemistry, and Norbert Müller, a professor of chemistry at the University of Linz in Austria, have developed a completely non-invasive imaging method. Their work offers the benefits of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while eliminating patients' exposure to irradiation and setting the stage for the creation of light, mobile MRI technology. The research, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) was supported by the National Science Foundation. TOP
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Bruce McEwen (Courtesy of The Rockefeller University) |
NEW YORK — The Rockefeller University's Bruce McEwen, whose laboratory studies how the brain changes in response to stress and other experiences, will receive the 2005 Neuropsychiatry Research Award from the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation. The announcement was made this week by the Pasarow Foundation in Beverly Hills, California, and the award will be presented at a ceremony in June. See Press Release TOP
NEW YORK — When a person's immune cells lose the ability to distinguish "self" from "non-self," they end up launching an attack on the body they're supposed to protect. Exactly what happens to rob them of that ability has been the subject of decades of research. In a series of discoveries that has the potential to help researchers halt autoimmune disorders - such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis - one scientist at The Rockefeller University has found an underlying mechanism that begins to explain the pathologies of a number of immune diseases. See Press Release TOP
National Science Foundation Awards
NEW YORK — Daniel Attinger of Columbia University is the recipient of a $374,164 NSF grant for the investigation of bubble dynamics in microscale geometries, with applications in bioengineering and microfluidics. Detail TOP
BROOKLYN — Phyllis Gail Frankl of the Polytechnic University of New York is the recipient of a $285,000 NSF grant for test generation and coverage for database applications. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Yuri Tschinkel of New York University is the recipient of a $225,750 NSF grant to research geometry of moduli spaces of rational curves with applications to diophantine problems over function fields. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Geraldine Downey of Columbia University is the recipient of a $200,000 NSF grant to research cellular mediator of thermoregulatory responses. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Charles M. Drain of CUNY Hunter College is the recipient of a $129,000 NSF grant to develop the supramolecular chemistry of porphyrinoids. Detail TOP
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Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia (Courtesy of CUNY City College) |
NEW YORK — Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia of CUNY City College is the recipient of a $115,133 NSF grant to study biochemical and structural characterization of intramembrane proteases. Detail TOP
National Institutes of Health Awards
NEW YORK — Judith Wylie-Rosett of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $756,365 NIH grant to research chinese american cardiovascular health assessment-chacha. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Edward Fisher of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $610,448 NIH grant to develop molecular regulation of atherosclerosis regression. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jon Morgenstern of the New York State Psychiatric Institute is the recipient of a $585,697 NIH grant to research naltrexone and cbt for problem drinking msm. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Aaron Hogue of the National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse is the recipient of a $561,020 NIH grant for quality community services for adolescent drug abuse. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Eloise Dunlap of the National Development & Research Institutes is the recipient of a $542,538 NIH grant for disruption and reformulation of illicit drug markets among new orleans evacuees. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Susan Rose of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $528,415 NIH grant to research infant roots of later cognition. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Brian Fallon of the New York State Psychiatric Institute is the recipient of a $503,458 NIH grant for the treatment of hypochondriasis. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Ramin Parsey of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $467,847 NIH grant to research biological predictors of response to antidepressants. Detail TOP
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Jack Gorman (Courtesy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine) |
NEW YORK — Jack Gorman of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $444,498 NIH grant for pet imaging of OFC and amygdala in panic disorder. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Rong Wang of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the recipient of a $424,073 NIH grant to research proteomex workstation shared instrumentation. Detail TOP
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Ming Zhou (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — Ming Zhou of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $402,500 NIH grant to research structural mechanism of k channel modulation by cellular redox state. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Boris Reizis of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $390,854 NIH grant to research ZFX, a novel transcriptional regulator of hematopoiesis. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jean Hebert of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $372,938 NIH grant to research genetic analysis of forebrain patterning & neurogenesis. Detail TOP
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Eneida Mendonca (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — Eneida Mendonca of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $372,499 NIH grant for answering information needs in workflow. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Terry Davies of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $347,475 NIH grant to research monoclonal thyroid stimulating antibodies. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Timothy McGraw of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $344,400 NIH grant to research endocytic trafficking pathways in adipocytes. Detail TOP
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Erwin Bottinger (Courtesy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine) |
NEW YORK — Erwin Bottinger of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the recipient of a $333,228 NIH grant to develop towards molecular diagnostics of glomerular disease. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jay Gingrich of the New York State Psychiatric Institute is the recipient of a $330,889 NIH grant to research gene-environment interactions and vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Seth Darst of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $330,000 NIH grant for the upgrade of in-house x-ray diffraction equipment. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Clayton Curtis of New York University is the recipient of a $327,551 NIH grant for the functional imaging of the human FEF. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Gabriela Chiosis of the Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research is the recipient of a $321,304 NIH grant to research assays for rapid identification of hsp70 modulators. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Marta Filizola of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $307,042 NIH grant to research opioid receptor oligomerization: prediction & validation. Detail TOP
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Eu-Meng Law (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Eu-Meng Law of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $299,975 NIH grant to research quantification of tumor malignancy with MRI. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Roman Perezsoler of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $294,207 NIH grant to research determinants of resistance to erlotinib in NSCLC. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — John Condeelis of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $294,059 NIH grant to research microenvironments of invasion in human breast tumors. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — David Silver of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $290,063 NIH grant to research sr-b1 sorting signals in HDL metabolism. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Hoby Hetherington of Yeshiva University is the recipient of a $265,659 NIH grant to research MRS measurements of gaba in temporal lobe epilepsy. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Ralph Buttyan of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $257,198 NIH grant to research protocadherin-pc and prostate cancer. Detail TOP
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Wei Gu (Courtesy of Columbia University) |
NEW YORK — Wei Gu of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $253,014 NIH grant to research the role of arf-bp1 in tumorigenesis. Detail TOP
JAMAICA — Diana Bartelt of St. John's University is the recipient of a $247,500 NIH grant for identifying aspergillus adhesins that bind ecm proteins. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jesus Angulo of Hunter College is the recipient of a $228,760 NIH grant to research methamphetamine and the striatal nk-1 receptors. Detail TOP
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Carrie Masia (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Carrie Masia of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $227,850 NIH grant for the treatment of child anxiety in pediatric medical settings. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Christoph Wiedenmayer of the New York State Psychiatric Institute is the recipient of a $222,127 NIH grant to research fear memory formation in early life. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — M. Beal of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $209,160 NIH grant to research antioxidant approaches to Alzheimer's disease therapy. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Vattoly Majo of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $181,125 NIH grant for the development of agonist pet probes for quantifying 5-ht1a receptor binding. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Bruce Link of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $181,125 NIH grant for stigma and psychosis: a prospective study. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Gregg Caporaso of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $177,642 NIH grant to research the role of telomerase in oligodendrocyte proliferation. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Stephen Magura of the National Development & Research Institutes is the recipient of a $173,494 NIH grant to research buprenorphine maintenance for opioid addicted persons in jail and post-release. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Hsun Ku of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the recipient of a $169,500 NIH grant to research endocrine pancreas from sox17+ endoderm progenitors. Detail TOP
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Richard Levin (Courtesy of New York University) |
NEW YORK — Richard Levin of New York University is the recipient of a $150,000 NIH grant for the New York University Medical Center IAIMS planning. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Michelle Lowes of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $135,378 NIH grant to research dendritic cells in psoriasis and effects of efalizumab. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Preeti Raghavan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $129,465 NIH grant to research interhemispheric transfer of grasp control after stroke. Detail TOP
BROOKLYN — Edward Quadros of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center is the recipient of a $127,820 NIH grant to research folate receptor autoantibodies in clinical disorders. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Victoria Frye of the New York Academy of Medicine is the recipient of a $106,989 NIH grant to research informal social control of partner violence in drug users. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Carrie Shawber of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $104,890 NIH grant to research notch and insulin signaling interactions in adipogenesis and angiogenesis. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Jenny Xiang of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $93,897 NIH grant to research applied biosystems. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Chihtung Chen of the Hospital for Special Surgery is the recipient of a $83,332 NIH grant for preventing cartilage degeneration after traumatic injury. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Michael Ross of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $82,031 NIH grant to research the fat10 a candidate gene for epithelial apoptosis in HIV-associated nephropathy. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Yifan Liu of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $48,796 NIH grant to research heterochromatin formation in x-inactivation. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Abigail Haka of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $45,976 NIH grant to research interaction of macrophages with marix-associated lipoproteins. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Erwin Ilegems of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is the recipient of a $45,976 NIH grant to research interaction of rtps and reeps with taste receptors. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Joshua Bassett of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $45,976 NIH grant to research mechanisms of neural integration: velocity storage in the ocularmotor system. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Megan King of The Rockefeller University is the recipient of a $45,976 NIH grant to research nuclear envelope membrane proteins and nuclear structure. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Sumeet Sarin of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $45,332 NIH grant to research a novel gene affecting neuronal cell fate specification. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Mark Ellis of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $43,996 NIH grant to research membrane organization during division in fission yeast. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Rockland Wiseman of the New York University School of Medicine is the recipient of a $43,996 NIH grant for the molecular mechanism of toxin-induced protein misfolding. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Uttam Tambar of Columbia University New York Morningside is the recipient of a $43,996 NIH grant for strained silacycle-mediated synthesis of bioactive rings. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Joshua Moses of Cuny Graduate School And University is the recipient of a $40,173 NIH grant to research disaster, religion and mental health in new york city. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Hibiki Fujita of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University is the recipient of a $39,649 NIH grant to research the pathogenic mechanisms of mutant ant1 myopathy. Detail TOP
NEW YORK — Angela Eickhorst of Columbia University Health Sciences is the recipient of a $36,201 NIH grant to research mechanisms of presynaptic differentiation. Detail TOP
