Category - Medicine and Research

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Veeramah Awarded ERC Funding to Study DNA from Medieval Europe

Krishna R. Veeramah will be continuing his pioneering research into ancient DNA with funding from a $10 million grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC’s 2019 Synergy grants include funding for a...

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Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Tiana Reyes ’19 has a very personal reason for doing undergraduate research in cancer biology and racial health disparities: her mother died from breast cancer when she was 11. “That fueled my interest...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Medicine Today Medicine: Alumni Profiles Stony Brook Matters

Renaissance School of Medicine Student on the Magic of the White Coat

On August 11, Jheison Giraldo ’21, a third-year student in the Renaissance School of Medicine, delivered the student address to incoming students at the School of Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony. Giraldo, who immigrated...

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NIH Funds New Strategy for Treating Teen Depression

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...

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Principal Investigator Christine DeLorenzo

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Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Stony Brook’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry are teaming up with the NIH on a $4.3 million research grant to develop treatments that can potentially arrest and reverse memory loss in...

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Medicine Today Alumni Board President Letter

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Message from the RSOM Alumni President – Fall 2019

Hello Fellow Alumni, This past August we welcomed our 2019 incoming class of 136 medical students at our White Coat Ceremony. Through your generosity, we were able to present a Littmann IV Cardiology stethoscope to...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Nursing Alumni News Research Stony Brook Matters

Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and...

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Alumni Spotlight Medicine and Research Nursing Alumni News Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters

Doug Toledo ’19 Discovers the Ingredients to Success

When life handed Doug Toledo lemons, he made lemonade…Doug’s Lemonade that is. After an injury sidelined him from playing division one soccer at Stony Brook, Doug parlayed advice from Stony Brook’s Small Business...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Social Welfare Alumni News Stony Brook Matters

Minds and Vines: Is Mental Health in Your DNA?

Join us for our October Minds & Vines Lecture at Harmony Vineyards. Hear from Professor Turhan Canli, PhD as he discusses how viruses inside your DNA may contribute to mental health or illness. Wednesday, October...

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New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

New anti-cancer therapies could result from a technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju.

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Alumni Spotlight Story Long Island Medicine Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Multiple agents capable of causing human disease are present in three species of ticks in Long Island, according to a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

A new study of 9/11 World Trade Center responders led by Stony Brook University reveals that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is strongly associated with onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study...

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White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

White lab coats – traditional attire for healthcare professionals – were donned proudly by the incoming class of 136 medical students at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as they officially became...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights Nursing Alumni News Research Stony Brook Matters

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

I. Memming Park, Stony Brook’s 2019 Discovery Prize winner, built his first artificial neural network when he was in middle school. That long-held interest in how the brain works influenced his award-winning research...

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With Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Ambassador Charles Gargano Helps Stony Brook Build Stronger Hearts

Throughout his career — in engineering, heavy construction and government — Ambassador Charles A. Gargano played a central role in protecting the beating heart of New York’s economy. On May 29, Stony Brook University...

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Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Giving Back Main University Medicine and Research Stony Brook Matters

Bassem Allam Invested as Inaugural Marinetics Endowed Professor

Laurie Landeau and Robert Maze continue to support vital research at Stony Brook What does it mean to be an endowed professor? For Bassem Allam, formally invested on April 26 as the Marinetics Endowed Professor in Stony...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Stony Brook’s Margaret Schedel, in collaboration with Brookhaven Lab Center for Functional Nanomaterials scientist Kevin Yager and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Melissa Clarke, has generated novel...

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Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, and Rouven Essig, Associate Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, have been named 2019 Simons Investigators, becoming the first faculty members at the University to...

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Category - Medicine and Research

Veeramah Awarded ERC Funding to Study DNA from Medieval Europe

Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Renaissance School of Medicine Student on the Magic of the White Coat

Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Message from the RSOM Alumni President – Fall 2019

Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

Doug Toledo ’19 Discovers the Ingredients to Success

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

With Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Ambassador Charles Gargano Helps Stony Brook Build Stronger Hearts

Bassem Allam Invested as Inaugural Marinetics Endowed Professor

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

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