Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
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Science at the Feinstein Institute
Established in 1999, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is a research institute on the grounds of the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Manhasset, NY. Over 200 Feinstein investigators, led by Betty Diamond, are involved with the study of immunity, autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and neuropsychiatric conditions. The institute collaborates with universites worldwide and has an on-going training agreement with the Karolinsa Institute in Stockholm. Scientists collaborate with clinicians throughout the North Shore-LIJ Health System (including North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center to identify critical unanswered questions about diseases. Patients participate in clinical trials related to the use of experimental drugs that are in various stages of clinical and preclinical testing for cancer, cardiac disease, sepsis, shock, trauma, arthritis, and other inflammatory conditions. The institute is known for its expertise in autoimmune and inflammatory disaeses as well as neurological conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The volume of National Institutes of Health-funded, patient-oriented research programs in the Feinstein Institute is significant: Over 80% of their research projects come under the category of patient-oriented research, and nearly 65% of these projects are supported by federal grants.
The Feinstein manages the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, a degree granting body chartered by the State University of New York, which confers medical school graduates, pursuing a career in research, with the PhD degree in molecular medicine. The Feinstein publishes Molecular Medicine, an international, peer-reviewed journal, ranked in the top 20th percentile of all research journals, reporting on fast-breaking developments in molecular medicine.
The Feinstein's major assets include: The NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center offers state-of-the-art facilities for designing, implementing and conducting clinical research studies in a central location; the NIH-funded Early-Phase Schizophrenia Center focuses on the development of the best treatments for schizophrenia; a Laboratory of Medicinal Biochemistry that complements The Feinstein’s drug discovery efforts, develops and streamlines preclinical testing methods; the Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry develops experimental drugs based upon the mechanisms of diseases discovered by our investigators.
History
In 1985, North Shore University Hospital constructed, on its Manhasset campus, a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) research building to foster the growth of clinical and translational science centers. Clinical research at North Shore University Hospital underwent a major expansion at this time, highlighted by the addition of significant new technology, including one of the earliest MRI scanners in New York State, and a PET scanner and cyclotron facility that was first not only in New York State but was one of the first on the east coast. Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ), which later merged with North Shore University Hospital, established a functioning Research Committee in 1956, funded by clinical practice income, to support pilot research projects by junior faculty. The first National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants to LIJ faculty were also awarded in 1956. This research support has continued to grow, and in 2000 LIJ received $9.6 million in NIH support for research in psychiatry (including a large Center grant in schizophrenia), pediatric infectious diseases, fetal lung development and respiratory distress in newborns, bone marrow transplantation, oncology, immunology, neurology, pulmonary disease, hemophilia, and nephrology.
As a nonprofit research information, they are required to provide certain financial and salary information in the IRS 990 data [1]
Salary and Financial Information
Facility details
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
- >50 laboratories
- 200 research and clinical scientists
- 10 physicians enrolled in The Elmezzi Graduate School for Molecular Medicine
Areas of basic interdisciplinary research
- biochemistry, structural biology and chemistry
- genetics
- molecular, cell and developmental biology
- immunology, virology and microbiology
- medical sciences and human genetics
- neuroscience