• Moshe, Goeffrey, Matthew, Abraham, Zoe (MD students) received Einstein 2025 summer research stipend. They will be doing research in the lab over the summer. 
• Congrats to Ryan Lee on acceptance into the MIR summer research program at WashU 2025
• Samarth Dunakhe got 1st place in the International Science and Engineering Fair in the category of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.

May 2024

• Congrats to Einstein MD students Avery Feit, Scott Ho, Christina Pil, Mustufa Babar for graduating with Research Distinction, and MD student Hannah Piskun for her best MD thesis award. 

• Congrats to Anna Eligulashvili, Joe Bisulca and Jimmy Sanchez (MD students) for receiving the 2024 Einstein's summer research fellowship awards. They will be doing research in the lab over the summer. 

• A very special thanks to Dr. Stephen Wang, MD. Dr. Wang spent two years doing research as part of his residency. He will be going back to doing (clinical) residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in all aspects of covid-19 projects and others. He has published many papers, and many many more to come. Without him, we wouldn't have been able to do what we did and are doing. Thank you Stephen. Dr. Wang has kindly offered to continue to work with us, respond to emails and join some mtgs when he is able with his busy schedule. 

Mar/May 2024
Hearty congratulations to this year's graduates! We wish you continuing success. Pls continue to collaborate with us and in the future when opportunities arise. A few of you are still holding out for better schools. Pls lmk when you decide. Most have published first author papers with us. All have or will soon have co-author papers in addition. 

MD students

Timothy Darby Radiology residency @Northwell

Hannah Piskun Internal Med residency @Mount Sinai 

Avery Feit Radiology residency @Einstein

Mustufa Babar Radiology residency @Columbia 

Christina Pil Anesthesiology residency @Tuft  

Kevin Dell'Aquila Pathology residency @NYU 

Undergrads

David Rezko Med school @Wake Forest

Justin Lu Med school  @Stanford 

Noel Cercizi MD/PhD @Einstein

Moshe Gordon Med school @Einstein
Jai Mehrotra-Varma Med school @Mount Sinai

Vincent Zhang Med school @Mount Sinai

High schoolers 

Alex Xu  @UC Berkeley 

Abhinav Vadlamani @UPENN 

Thomas Peng @Cornell 

Helen Tang @Carnagie Mellon 

Priyanka Karunakaran @MIT

Jisha Rajala @Purdue
Ami Dave @UT Austin

Jan 2024

Congrats to top 300 STS Regeneron finalists: Helen Tang and Alex Xu
Alexander Yaokun Xu, Age: 18

William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NY
Project Title: CARe-BERT: BERT-Powered Graph Augmentation for Context-Aware Radiology Report Retrieval

Helen Tang, Age: 18
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NY
Project Title: Impact of Unmet Social Needs on Acute and Long-Term Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients

Sept 2023

Avery Feit, MD student, is awarded with Distinction in Research
Scott Ho, MD student, is awarded with Distinction in Research

Aug 2023

!! Another high impact covid paper in Hypertension (8/21/23) and its news feeds. Please also visit our publication tab above).
Read the AHA article

Read the CNN Article

Read the Medscape Article

Read the Prevention Article

Read the U.S. News & World Report Article
Read the WebMD Article

many others, news feeds. 

May 2023

Many congratulations! We wish you continuing success. We hope you can continue to collaborate when opportunities arise.

Eric Muir, PhD, took up a faculty and director of human imaging @ UNC
Beiyi Shen, MD, PhD, MSK fellow @ NYU
Benjamin Musheyev, MD, Ophthalmology residency @ Northwell
Rumana Tokaria, MD, intern/resident
Kevin Dell'Aquila, MD, intern/resident
Gurinder Singh, MD, radiology resident, Mount Sinai
Ioannis Babatsikos is a Radiology Resident at Westchester Medical Center. 

Victoria Ende, General Surgery Resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital Queens.
Harnadar Anand, MD, Internal Med, UCSD

Amy Delury - Grad/PhD school @ SUNY Buffalo
Anna Eligulashvili - Med school @ Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Joseph Bisulca - Med School @ Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tharun Alamuri - Med School @ Stony Brook School of Medicine
Timothy Chu - Med School @ Stony Brook School of Medicine
Jai Mehrotra-Varma - Med school @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Richard Adam, Med school @ New York Medical College
Nabeeha Khan, Med School @ USCSOM

Sandhya Mahesh, UG @UPenn,
Ryan Liu - HS valedictorian, UG @Brown
Jeylin Lee - HS valedictorian, UG @Caltech

A few are still deciding with multiple options and we wish you luck in your decision.
Essentially all of these individuals have published multiple papers with us as first author over the past year, with more papers to come.

Feb 2023 

• Congratulations! Jeylin Lee, who was selected as top 300 scholars Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS). This comes with an award of $2,500 as well as an additional $2,500 to her school. 

Jeylin Lee, Age: 17

Herricks High School, NY

Project Title: Diabetic Ketoacidosis Amongst COVID-19 Infected Individuals: A Retrospective Study of Incidence, Characteristics, Outcomes and Risk Factors

• Dr. Duong's commentary on an major Circulation (AHA) article https://www.heart.org/en/news/2023/01/27/researchers-take-a-closer-look-at-what-covid-19-does-to-the-heart
  
  

Jan 2023 

US News and World Reports

Researchers Take a Closer Look at What COVID-19 Does to the Heart

Tim Duong, Ph.D., comments on a study about COVID-19 and its effects on the heart, noting that more research is necessary to follow patients, assess whether the virus impacted their organs, and treat them accordingly. Dr. Duong is professor and vice chair for research of radiology at Einstein and Montefiore, professor of biochemistry, and professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Einstein.

In the news:
New paper in Hypertension (Jun 2023)
Ebiomedicine paper: covid patients are more likely to develop new diabetes (News release)
New funded study: Stroke
Circulation (AHA) paper: Commentary
Einstein interview on persistent cardiac injury in COVID-19 survivors
BronxNet interview on cardiac long covid in COVID-19 survivors 

2022
HCPlive interview on sickle cell disease patients with COVID-19 (part1) (part 2)
Einstein news: COVID-19 waves in the Montefiore Health System
Einstein news: Sickle cell and COVID-19
Check out our covid papers.

Jun 2022
Joyce Lu, Harvard
Camaron Xu, Cornell
Andrei Iosifescu, Princeton
Aaquib Syed, Princeton
Caroline Shi, CMU
Joanna Zhu, USC
Eric Cao, UPENN
Ben Wang, Cornell
Jack Wilson, Med Sch @ New York Medical College
Thomas Ren, Med Sch @ Stony Brook University
Stephanie Wong, Residency @ Westside Regional Medical Center
Kat Lam, Residency, General Surgery, Westchester
Zirun Zhao, Residency, Neurosurgery, U of Washington

Mar 2022

BronxNet interview on cardiac long covid of COVID-19 survivors
Einstein interview on persistent cardiac injury in COVID-19 survivors
Einstein news
HCPlive interview on sickle cell disease patients with COVID-19 (part1) (part 2)

Jan 2022

Congrat to Eric Cao for being named STS Regeneron top 300 finalist. 

Eric Cao, Age: 17
Hunter College High School, NY
Project Title: Deep Learning Multimodal Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease Conversion Within 3 Years of Diagnosis Using Whole-Brain 3D PET, 3D MRI, and Neurocognitive Measures

College early admission so far, ...
Joyce Lu, MIT
Camaron Xu, Cornell
Andrei Iosifescu, Princeton
Caroline Shi, CMU

Sept 2021

Our papers that made news.

Einstein news: https://einsteinmed.org/research-briefs/2646/better-outcomes-in-the-bronxs-second-pandemic-wave/

Einstein news: https://einsteinmed.org/research-briefs/2637/sickle-cell-disease-and-risk-of-severe-illness-or-death-from-covid-19/

Aug 2021

NEW PhD grad program in Biomedical imaging https://einsteinmed.edu/education/phd/

Jul 2021

• Congrat to Christina Buyoung Pil for being awared with a highly competitive one-year Medical Student Research Fellowship, to take a year off from medical school to do research with us. 

• Congrat to Wouter S. Hoogenboom1, Roman Fleysher1, Selvin Soby2, Parsa Mirhaji2, William B. Mitchell3, Kerry A. Morrone3, Deepa Manwani3, Tim Q. Duong1 for having an accepted paper, entitled "Individuals with sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait demonstrate no increase in mortality or critical illness from COVID-19 — A fifteen-hospital observational study in the Bronx, New York"

HAEMATOLOGICA (impact factor = 9.94)

• Congrat to Joyce Lu for being award with a Simons Scholar fellowhip

Jun 2021

Congrats to our HS trainees who will be attending top notch universities
Ethan Ocasio Harvard
Sanjay Nagaraj Stanford
Nisha Balaji Caltech
Shreya Ravikumar MIT
Jocelyn Zhu MIT
Shreeja Kikkisetti Harvard
Neil Mehta Brown
Julia Salatti, Cornell

Joyce Lu - 4th place ISEF, a national competition https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/

Apr 2021

You are invited to contribute to this special issue on COVID-19
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/special_issues/Machine_Learning_COVID-19_Complications

Mar 2021

Congratulations to (early action or early admission) underline indicates attending
Ethan Ocasio Harvard.
Sanjay Nagaraj Stanford.
Nisha Balaji Caltech
Shreya Ravikumar MIT, Caltech, and Berkeley
Jocelyn Zhu MIT and Caltech
Shreeja Kikkisetti Harvard, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, and UPenn
Julia Salatti, Cornell

Joyce Lu - finalist ISEF
Nisha Balaji - finalist ISEF

Jan 2021

Congratulations! Julia Salatti and Ethan Ocasio have been named as top 300 scholars in the 80th Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) —the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. Congratulations to Julia Salatti and Ethan Ocasio!
Each receives $2,000. Each of their school receives $2,000 in addition.

Ethan Ocasio, Age: 17

The New School of Northern Virginia, VA

Project Title: Deep Learning Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease Conversion at 3 years using Longitudinal and Whole-Brain 3D MRI

Julia Salatti, Age: 17

Kings Park High School, NY

Project Title: Utilizing MR Imaging to Analyze Tumor Texture and Its Effects on Long Term Survival in Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme

Jun 2020
James Kang (MD student), Stony Brook Radiology residency
Pallavi Srivastava, (postdoc) UTSW Radiology residency
David Ouellette (PhD student), Cornell Med Phy Residency
Renee Cattell (PhD student), Stony brook Med Phy Residency
Isha Punn (UG), Stony Brook med school
Pauline Huang (Research assistant), NYIT med school
Jason Ha (UG), Penn State College of Medicine

HS going to colleges:
Stephanie Lin, Harvard, TOP 300 2020 Regeneron Scholars.
Janice Yang, Stanford, TOP 300 2020 Regeneron Scholars.
Erica Lin, Vanderbilt
Hana Ali, Brooklyn College (combined BA/MD)
Mourya Chimpiri, Stony Brook
Sheza Suleman, Cornell
Elizabeth Reimer, Dartmouth
Kreena Totala, Northeastern, TOP 300 2020 Regeneron Scholars.
Miles Kim, UPENN
Sanjana Ahmed, CUNY, 5 year BS/MD program
Anthony Litterick, Stony Brook
Justin Lu, Brown

Jan 2020

Happy new year! We are exceedingly proud that three of our high school students were selected to be the TOP 300 2020 Regeneron Scholars. Each scholar receives $2000 and each of their schools receives $2000. They will go on to compete for $20,000 finalists and hopefully also for the ultimate $250,000 prize in DC. We wish them luck. 

Janice Yang, Age: 17, Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, CA
Project Title: A Novel Machine Learning Method to Predict Breast Cancer Patient Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Progression Free Survival from Axillary Lymph Node MRIs

Stephanie Lin, Age: 17, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, NY
Project Title: Convolutional Neural Network of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Detects Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients Pre Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Kreena Totala, Age: 17, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Project Title: The Novel Quantification of White Matter Microstructural Alterations in Thalamocortical Tracts as a Predictive Measure of ADHD Behavior and Subtype in a Pediatric Population

Jun 2019   High school students

HS going to colleges:
Jamie Fu, MIT
Sarah Descosta, William & Mary
Vincent Zhang, Cornell, Valedictorian, Top 300 Regeneron Scholar
Amy De Lury, Hopkins, Valedictorian
Priya Mukki, Cornell
Megha Italo, SBU honor college
Ankita Kaukota, UCLA, Valedictorian
Shreya Chimpiri, Northwestern
Nikita Kaukota, UC Berkeley
Gregory Bodik, Cornell
Jess Goldstein, Cornell
Varsha Talanki, SUNY New Paltz (7 year BS/MD)
Xin Fang, Columbia
Joseph Bisulca, SBU honor college, Valedictorian
Christine Cahaney, Resdiency U of Chicago

Mar 2019

Drs. Ken Shroyer, MD,PhD and Tim Duong, PhD, received a two-year Bahl Endowment IDEA grant to study experimental pancreatic cancer using MRI and MRS

Drs. Pat Coyle, MD and Tim Duong, PhD, received a two-year pilot grant to study MS. 

Mar 2019

12th Annual Women in Medicine Research Day 

Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Wednesday, March 7, 2018
MRI study of pediatric chemobrain 
Medical Student Abstract Winner: Christine Cahaney (Radiology)

Mar 2019

Our lab has 4 HS valedictorians 
Amy Delury – Sachem North High School
Vincent Zhang – Sachem East HS
Joseph Bisulca – Half Hollow Hills High School West
Ankita Katukota – Comsewogue HS/ Port Jeff  

Jan 2019

 Regeneron Science Talent Search Winner. The Society for Science & the Public is proud to announce that Vincent Zhang (from Sachem High School) has been named a top 300 scholar in the 78th Regeneron Science Talent Search—the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. A listing of all 300 scholars can be found here. Almost 2,000 students entered the competition this year. Vincent Zhang's mentor is Tim Duong, PhD. Vincent Zhang will receive $2,000, and their school will also receive $2,000 to use toward STEM-related activities. Vincent Zhang could also be named as one of 40 Finalists, who each receive $25,000 and are invited to Washington, DC for the final competition in March. The top prize for the most promising emerging STEM leader in the United States is $250,000.

Vincent Zhang, Age: 17, Sachem High School, NY
Project Title: MRI Texture Analysis for Detection of Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients

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Sept 2018

Radiology, SOM and SBU are excited to host the IEEE Milestones Dediction of Dr. Paul Lauterbur's Invention of MRI

Sept 5th, 2018 5:30pm MART Auditorium

Grant awards 

Aug 2018

• Dr. Tim Duong, PhD and colleagues Drs. Parker, Hogan, Preston, Stefancin, Cahaney receive a Bahl Endowment IDEA grant to study pediatric chemo brain. 

• Dr. Geoff Girnun, PhD and colleagues Dr. Richard Lin, Dr. Tim Duong received a a Bahl Endowment IDEA grant to study experimental pancreatic cancer using MRS

Jun 2018
Dr. James Bai receives National RSNA Rotegen Research Award 2018 which recognizes outstanding residents and fellows in radiologic research 

Jul 2018

• A team of oncologists, radiologists, and imaging scientists was awarded a TRO grant over two years to develop novel imaging methods to study breast cancer and axillary lymph nodes.
  Investigators: Cohen, Baer, Bernstein, Franceschi, Fisher, Duong

• A team of imaging scientists, radiologists, oncologists were awarded a TRO grant to study cognitive dysfunction in pediatric chemotherapy patients
  Investigators: Duong, Parker, Hogan, Meyer, Preston, Cahaney, Stefancin    

May 2018  Mt Sinai-Stony Brook Pilot grant award 

• A team of imaging scientists, radiologists, oncologists were awareded a $100,000 Mt Sinai-Stony Brook pilot grant to study breast lymph-node metastasis and response to therapy. Investigators: Duong, Cohen, Fisher, Palermo, Bernstein, Brian O'Hea (Stony Brook), and Shapiro, Margolies, Port, Schmidt (Mt Sinai)

Annonucements: Preclinical MRI Center

May 2018

Preclinical MRI Center is fully operational. We strive to provide in vivo imaging support for biomedical research at SBU. We encourage a wide range of collaborations between various groups to explore new imaging techniques, novel imaging contrast agents, or new applications in various research fields. It houses two state-of-the-art animal scanners:

• Bruker 7.0 Tesla MRI

• Bruker 9.4 Tesla MRI 

• Computational infrastructure to assist image analysis

• High-resolution PET insert for simultaneous MRI-PET study

• Supportive infrastructure

Preclinical MRI Center underwrites all development costs for promising and fundable projects and helps analzye data. For limited time, SOM provides matching fund to support pilot/feasibility studies @ little to no costs to investigators. For limited time, SB Cancer Center provides matching fund to support pilot/feasibility studies @ little to no costs to investigators. Click here or contact Dr. Tim Duong, PhD (Director) more information

National Distinguished Investigator Award to SBM Radiology Faculty

Dr. Tim Duong, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, is awarded with the 2018 Distinguished Investigator Award 2018 from The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.

He wil also be inducted into the Academy’s Council of Distinguished Investigators at the 2018 Radiological Society of North Americas (RSNA).