Amy De Lury, Jessica Goldstein, Ankita Katukota
NEWS
May 2024
Congrats to Einstein MD students Avery Feit, 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 continuied 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
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 Regeneron finalists: Helen Tang and Alex Xu
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 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.
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
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
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.
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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
Apr 2, 2018
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).
2017
Dr. Raj Gupta receives NationalRSNA Rotegen Research Award 2017 which recognizes outstanding residents and fellows in radiologic research