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Sapience Therapeutics, a Harrison-based company that is involved in developing drugs to treat cancer, has been awarded a second Small Business Innovative Research grant from the federal government’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

BioInc@NYMC news: Barry Kappel, Ph.D., M.B.A., president, chief executive officer and director of Sapience Therapeutics, a BioInc@NYMC client

On average, menopause begins at 51; for some women the perimenopausal transition can take upwards of 10 years. For this reason I reinforce with my patients of all ages to establish healthy lifestyle habits early.

Faculty news: Alyssa Dweck, M.D., M.S., adjunct assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology

Dr. Robert Amler, dean of New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice and a former CDC chief medical officer, says overwhelming evidence shows that vaccines have caused reductions in disease in the United States and worldwide.

Leadership news: Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president of government affairs

"It's likely that patients who died rapidly received less total (of the two drugs) because they were dead; one can't conclude from these data that they died because they got fewer doses"

NYMC Faculty news: Neil W. Schluger, M.D., the Barbara and William Rosenthal Chair of the Department of Medicine

New York Medical College – $1.3 Million: Will design and implement a campus-wide, direct digital control building management system that will combine existing systems with new, advanced controls to create a single system for campus HVAC, chiller and boiler pumps, and lighting controls.

NYMC news: Valhalla campus

While there may be fewer donors due to the pandemic, according to Dr. Kartik Prabhakaran, the trauma medical director at Westchester Medical Center, blood shortages always boil down to supply and demand.

NYMC Faculty news: Kartik Prabhakaran, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of surgery

Harrison-based biotech firm Sapience Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced it received a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I grant, bestowed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

BioInc@NYMC news: Barry Kappel, Ph.D., M.B.A., president, chief executive officer and director of Sapience Therapeutics, a BioInc@NYMC client

Even though tonsils play an important role in keeping us healthy, they can become infected and enlarged for a number of reasons. Craig Zalvan, M.D., associate professor of clinical otolaryngology at New York Medical College.

NYMC Faculty news: Craig H. Zalvan, M.D., clinical professor of otolaryngology

"Lyme disease, if not recognized and treated in its early stages, can have extremely detrimental effects," the founder of the center, Dr. Gary P. Wormser, told Patch. 

NYMC Faculty news: Gary P. Wormser, M.D., professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology and pharmacology and vice chair of medicine for research and development

Dr. Neil Schluger, chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York Medical College, said that to conclude cause-and-effect "is an obvious error," calling the study very small with little hard data.

NYMC Faculty news: Neil W. Schluger, M.D., the Barbara and William Rosenthal Chair of the Department of Medicine

One study conducted at New York Medical College demonstrated that combining omega-3 fatty acids with a standardized oil from black cumin (Nigella sativa) may reduce inflammation caused by a high-fat (Western) diet.

New York Medical College news

Vassar College, Syracuse University, CUNY and New York Medical College won grants to go green totaling more than $5 million as part of the “Energy To Lead” competition aimed at achieving energy savings and combating climate change.

New York Medical College news

The grants are from the TD Charitable Foundation and the KeyBank Foundation, in the amounts of $25,000 and $10,000, respectively.

NYMC Faculty news: Gary Rogg, M.D., assistant professor of medicine

Dr. Robert Amler, the Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical College and a former medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control, said he's concerned about others traveling in because of the risk it presents.

NYMC Leadership news:Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president for government affairs

In the first trial of 380 patients with schizophrenia, treatment with 120 µg of the oral rapidly dissolving film yielded an average 8.5-point reduction in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)

NYMC Faculty news: Leslie L. Citrome, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences 

Julian Stewart, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatric cardiologist at New York Medical College, believes POTS can be categorized as primary or secondary. “Primary POTS,” he said, results from a disruption in the autonomic and circulatory systems that can’t be explained by other conditions.

NYMC Faculty news: Julian Stewart, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, medicine, physiology

“First released in 2012, then updated in 2016 and now 2021, the document highlights a patient- centric approach to procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, incorporating all the latest advances and standards,” said Srihari S Naidu, New York Medical College.

Faculty news: Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., professor of medicine

Scientifically, we recognize that the risk of viral transmission outside is low. However, socially, who will govern the maskless to ensure that they are indeed vaccinated?

NYMC Student news: Sonia Hur, SOM Class of 2021

The Westchester County Office of Economic Development is proud to support biotech startups, stage two companies and global leaders in the broad life sciences industry. Regeneron, Acorda Therapeutics and the Hudson Valley’s only fully-equipped biotechnology incubator, BioInc@NYMC, all call Westchester home.

BioInc@NYMC news