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News August 11, 2016

Stony Brook Medicine, Mount Sinai Health team up

Academic synergies and accelerated discoveries are the promise of a new research collaboration pairing Stony Brook Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System. Stony Brook University and New York City-based Mount Sinai announced the new affiliation Thursday, with officials from both institutions highlighting the partnership’s superior research potential and innovative clinical-care initiatives. Effective immediately, Stony Brook Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will begin developing new research programs – including medical-education…

Biotech October 11, 2015

Beta installations for first SynchroPET scanners

By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook startup SynchroPET has taken a giant step toward commercializing its groundbreaking scanners, which offer unprecedented 3-D views of the body’s biological systems using technology that no longer fills a room. In fact, it barely covers a desk. More on the science in a minute. The headline is news that SynchroPet has sited its first scanner at Stony Brook Medicine’s animal research division, where researchers will run it through its…

Education August 26, 2015

Stony Brook Medicine welcomes largest-ever class

One-hundred-thirty-two first-year students received their first white coats this week – and, for the first time ever, complimentary stethoscopes – as the Stony Brook University School of Medicine welcomed its largest-ever incoming class. The Class of 2019 received physician-in-training coats and stethoscopes, courtesy of the school’s alumni association, during Stony Brook Medicine’s annual White Coat Ceremony, held this week. The incoming class also took the Hippocratic Oath for the first time. The highly competitive class…