Stony Brook University News

SBU Researchers And Colleagues Worldwide Use CT Technology To Virtually Reconstruct Skull Of A Large Extinct Lemur

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:35:08 PST

Fossils recovered in a remote cave in the Southeast corner of Madagascar by William L. Jungers, Ph.D., a paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University Medical Center, and his colleagues in Hawaii, Oregon, Massachusetts and Madagascar have been reuinted and reconstructed via computed tomography (CT) technology by collaborators at Pennsylvania State University.

SBUMC Awarded High-End Instrumentation Grant From NIH To Advance Biomedical Research Of Diseases

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:01:59 PST

Stony Brook University Medical Center received a 2008 High-End Instrumentation Grant from the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the purchase of a mass spectrometer with extremely high resolving power.

29 MDs from Stony Brook University Medical Center Included In New York Magazine's Best Doctors Issue

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:56:55 PST

New York magazine’s annual "Best Doctors in New York" issue features 29 full time and voluntary physicians from Stony Brook University Medical Center. Boasting a wide range of specialties, they were selected from more than 50,000 physicians in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area.

SBU Collaborative Study of New HIV Drug Shows Significant Viral Load Reduction For Patients Resistant To Therapy

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:02:48 PST

A study led by Roy T. Steigbigel, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University Medical Center, and colleagues worldwide demonstrated that raltegravir, a new medication to treat HIV infection, combined with other anti-HIV medications, provided superior suppression of HIV-1 in patients with highly resistant virus compared to placebo used with other anti-HIV medications.

Stony Brook University Professor Named Fellow Of Executive Leadership In Academic Medicine (ELAM)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:22:51 PST

Dr. Maria Emanuel Ryan, a tenured Professor in the Department of Oral Biology and Pathology at the School of Dental Medicine and Director of Clinical Research, has been accepted as a member of the 2008-2009 class of Fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. Dr. Ryan is also a member of the medical staff at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

SBU Scientist Receives "LILAC" Instrumentation Grant To Further Molecular Research On Breast Cancer

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:31 PST

Wei-Xing Zong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center, was awarded a grant from the Long Island League to Abolish Cancer (LILAC) to purchase a powerful instrument to aide his research analyzing the molecular components of breast cancer cell metabolism.

SBU School of Medicine Dean Receives Top Award From The American Society of Transplantation

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:48:18 PST

Richard N. Fine., M.D., a renowned pediatric nephrologist and Dean of Stony Brook University School of Medicine, received the Ernest Hodge Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Society of Transplantation (AST).

Graduate Of SBU Public Health Program Wins National Award For Public Service

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:32:41 PST

Samia Omar, M.P.H., a 2008 graduate of the Stony Brook University Graduate Program in Public Health, received an award that will enable her this summer to implement an oral health education program to children living in select villages in remote areas of Madagascar.

Stony Brook University Medical Center Receives NSHC's Inaugural "Excellence In Patient Safety Award"

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:32:32 PST

Stony Brook University Medical Center (SBUMC) received the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC) selected to receive its inaugural “Excellence in Patient Safety Award,” recognizing Stony Brook’s distinguished achievements in patient safety and quality improvement in decreasing sepsis mortality. The award was presented to SBUMC at the NSHC annual meeting for its submission entitled: “Increasing Detection and Standardizing Care for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis.”

SBU Team Designs Customized "Wimpy" Polioviruses, A Method That Could Be A New Path To Vaccines

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:58:33 PST

A team of molecular biologists and computer scientists at Stony Brook University has designed and synthesized a new class of weakened polioviruses. They used their synthesizing method with computer software to systematically re-code the poliovirus genome. In doing so, the team is the first to demonstrate that a synthetic weakened virus can immunize an animal.

Discovery Of A Lyme Disease Bug Clone May Explain Disease Spread

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:31:45 PST

Benjamin Luft, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and colleagues discovered that a certain clone of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, appears to be the most common strain causing Lyme disease in North America and Europe, and may account for the increase in cases for the past 20 years.

SBUMC Researchers Link Low Level Urinary Cadmium Concentrations To Osteoporosis In U.S. Women

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:40:50 PST

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center have found that women in the United States who have urinary cadmium levels that are below the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration safety standard are at risk for osteoporosis.

Elementary Students Raise $14,000 At Sunrise Fund Walk

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:25:10 PST

Plenty of music, games, and perfect June weather accompanied hundreds of students from the W.S. Mount Elementary School in Stony Brook during the annual walk-a-thon to benefit the Sunrise Fund at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

Stony Brook University Medical Center Echocardiography Expert Appointed to National, Regional Organizations

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:10:54 PST

Smadar Kort, M.D., FACC, FASE, Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Imaging and Echocardiography within SBUMC’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, was recently nominated to the Board of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) for which she will serve as leader for its activities and initiatives relating to public education.

Stony Brook University Hospital Receives National Award For Environmental Achievement

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:53:56 PST

Stony Brook University Hospital received the “Partner for Change Award” at the 2008 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards. Practice Greenhealth is the result of the merger of two leading organizations – Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) and the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) – with a new clean energy and energy efficiency program – Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange (HCEE). The Practice Greenhealth Awards were presented in Pittsburgh in conjunction with CleanMed 2008, a global conference for environmental leaders in health care.

"Witness Walk" And Summer Programs Expand Breast Cancer Awareness In African American Communities on L.I.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:15:39 PST

The Witness Project® of Long Island (WPLI), a collaborative breast health and cancer education program of Stony Brook University Cancer Center and the Town of Babylon, continues to educate African American communities about breast cancer.

SBU Launches First Doctor Of Nursing Practice Program On Long Island

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:02:31 PST

The Stony Brook University School of Nursing launched its Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (DNP), a clinical education program for nurse practitioners intended to broaden the clinical capacity of nurses and enhance patient care.

SBUMC Chairman Of Surgery Elected To Johns Hopkins University Society Of Scholars

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:07:31 PST

Dr. John Joseph Ricotta, professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and program director of general surgery at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Stony Brook University, has been elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars

SBUMC Conducts Trial Of Novel Treatment For Patients With Severe Crohn's Disease

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:23:12 PST

Many patients with Crohn’s disease develop advancing disease and no longer respond to therapy. To help patients refractory to treatment, Stony Brook University Medical Center is conducting a clinical trial that infuses cells derived from adult bone marrow into patients to induce disease remission.

SBU Researchers First To Create A "Molecular Snapshot" Of A Virulence Factor On The Bacterial Surface

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:33:15 PST

David G. Thanassi, Ph.D., and co-investigators from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Washington University, and University College in London, are the first to capture a view of proteins during translocation across the bacterial outer membrane.