The North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Research Institute is one of the largest facilities in the New
York Metropolitan Area focusing on disease-oriented medical research
and among the leading institutions nationally that receive funds
from the National Institutes of Health and other federal funding
sources. Its goal is to integrate major research initiatives,
building on its strengths in immunology, inflammation
and infectious diseases, molecular and cell biology, human genetics,
oncology, and neuroscience, psychiatry and movement disorders.
In October 2002, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine entered into an affiliation
agreement with the Institute to establish a joint educational and research program.
The Affiliation provides the opportunity for academic appointments
for qualified Institute faculty members in the basic science departments of the
College of Medicine, for collaborative research, and for students of the medical
school and its Sue Golding Graduate Division to pursue biomedical research training
in laboratories at the Institute. Students who participate in this program can
elect to do research in genetics, immunology, oncology, and neuroscience.
As part of the program, Ph.D. students select a scientist from the Research Institute
to serve as a mentor and work closely with that researcher for three to four
years. Graduate students have access to laboratory
facilities at the Research Institute and Libraries at
both institutions. |
