News and Discoveries Archive
Cancer Research at Albany Medical College Awarded Nearly $5 Million in Federal Funding
The Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research at Albany Medical College has been awarded four grants, totaling $5 million, by the National Institutes of Health to further focus on understanding cellular function in normal and disease states and facilitate the application of new findings not only to the field of cancer biology, but also to a variety of other diseases including atherosclerosis, arthritis and diabetes.
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Scientist Receives $1.6 Million NIH Grant Aimed at Future Treatment for Respiratory Tularemia
Timothy Sellati, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical College, has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (National Institutes of Health) to continue studying whether lessening the immune response to a deadly form of bacteria could actually prevent death.
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Albany Med Welcomes Two Interventional Cardiologists
Anthony Nappi, M.D. and Mohammad El-Hajjar, M.D.-both interventional cardiologists-have recently joined Albany Medical Center’s division of cardiology and have been appointed assistant professors of medicine at Albany Medical College.
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$2 Million Grant Received to Study Role of Cellular Pathways in Fighting Infection
James Drake, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical College, has received a $1.96 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease for his research on the immune system.
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Med Students Find Meaning in Cultural Immersion
A six-week Cultural Diversity Matters elective offered to students during the summer between their first and second years of medical school.
Developed in 2000, the elective is partially funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Health Resources and Services Administration. Up to 20 students can take the course, which begins with several days of orientation at the College, where students partake in “demographic mapping” to discover the differences and similarities among each other, such as who plays a musical instrument or who speaks more than one language.
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