Kisa King, a resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, administered by Ian Pak, a pharmacist at the Hospital.
The challenges of diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s patients, many of whom are older than 60 — a demographic particularly vulnerable to the dangers of COVID-19 — increase exponentially during a pandemic. Like the rest...
Recent scientific evidence has shown that the coronavirus may remain infectious as an aerosol for three hours or longer. Although the exact means of transmission remains a mystery that’s still being investigated...
A study led by SBU's Anat Biegon is the first to show a direct correlation between aromatase (an enzyme) availability in the amygdala and body mass index.
With a nearly $3 million grant from the NIDA, Assistant Professor Scott J. Moeller, PhD, of the Renaissance School of Medicine is studying the brains of those with opioid use disorder.
Areas most at risk from the COVID-19 pandemic can be identified by a new machine learning tool developed by researchers at startup company Akai Kaeru LLC, which is affiliated with Stony Brook University’s Department of...
The research, funded by the NSF, will look at how viruses affect cells upon entry into the bat host’s nasal passages to explain why symptomatic disease does not occur.
When the coronavirus pandemic began, one Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) nurse came out of retirement to join her daughter on the frontlines. Mary Beth Patterson retired from SBUH in December 2018 after being...
Stony Brook is ranked No. 2 among all public universities in the Northeastern U.S., according to an article based on the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings for 2020. Three schools are tied...
In the latest “Beyond the Expected” podcast, Stony Brook Medicine administrators discuss the temporary “new normal” in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
Throughout its 40 years, Stony Brook Medicine has grown to become Long Island’s premier academic medical center as it continues to play a major role in leading research and pioneering techniques.
Stony Brook is the only hospital on Long Island to receive this distinction for the past two consecutive years and among only five hospitals in New York State this year.
After pursuing a Dietetics Technician degree at Suffolk Community College, Alexa Detore ’23 thought her career in nutrition was on its way. But soon after getting her first job, she began to have second thoughts. “I’ve...
New strategies for treating teen depression will be funded by a five-year, $2 million Early Independence Award (EIA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Jessica Schleider, an Assistant Professor of Clinical...