Einstein Faculty

Unraveling the Mysteries of Genetics with Technology and Teamwork

Today, barely a decade after the first sequencing of the human genome, Einstein researchers are unlocking new knowledge about how genes affect human health. Much of that work relies on state-of-the-art scientific and technical resources, including the installation of the first segment of an easily expandable supercomputer that broadens the ability of researchers at the College of Medicine to organize and analyze complex read more

Dr. Robert Singer: Pioneering Biomedical Imaging for Viewing Molecules in Motion

For more than three decades, Dr. Robert Singer, professor and co-chair of anatomy and structural biology, co-director of the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center and professor of neuroscience and of cell biology, has been plumbing the mysteries of cells. For him and the researchers in the Singer lab at Einstein, this is the most basic and fundamental of life's questions. "The ultimate cell biology read more

Tackling America's Public Health Problems by Going to the (Food) Source

No one disputes that the way we eat in the U.S. has contributed to a national health crisis of diet-related diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of all U.S. adults (over 72 million people) and 17 percent of U.S. children are obese. And there are serious health effects read more