Noteworthy
• Downstate was awarded a $558,000 Shared Instrumentation Grant (S10) from NIH to develop a modern on-site high performance computing (HPC) facility, with Dr. Scott Bunnell from Scientific Computing as PI, submitted with administrative support from the Office of the SVPR. High end compute nodes (GPU node) will be installed and connected by a fast network along with increased storage capacity. The HPC facility will support the requirements of cutting-edge large-scale computational genomics, neurobiology, biomedical engineering and psychiatry, among others, currently underway at SUNY Downstate. This system will return a contemporary level of high-performance computing to SUNY Downstate after over a decade of absence of a consolidated shared research-computing resource, and will directly elevate the quality of research throughout SUNY Downstate by supporting current projects and enabling the initiation of novel studies.
• Downstate was awarded a $558,000 Shared Instrumentation Grant (S10) from NIH to develop a modern on-site high performance computing (HPC) facility, with Dr. Scott Bunnell from Scientific Computing as PI, submitted with administrative support from the Office of the SVPR. High end compute nodes (GPU node) will be installed and connected by a fast network along with increased storage capacity. The HPC facility will support the requirements of cutting-edge large-scale computational genomics, neurobiology, biomedical engineering and psychiatry, among others, currently underway at SUNY Downstate. This system will return a contemporary level of high-performance computing to SUNY Downstate after over a decade of absence of a consolidated shared research-computing resource, and will directly elevate the quality of research throughout SUNY Downstate by supporting current projects and enabling the initiation of novel studies.
• SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University has received two grants – a combined $5.9M in funding over five years—from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The two programs- Clinical Research Scholars Training Program (CREST) and the Center of Excellence – New York State Department of Health Equity Policy Fellowship Program (COE Fellowship) will support health disparities and equity-focused research training.
• US Patent 11,350,921 awarded to the Research Foundation at SUNY for a technology developed at Downstate by Stephen Macknik titled Pressure-Regulating Impact and Methods of Use Thereof in the field of Neurology.
• Erik Anderson, DO, PhD, a 3rd year Internal Medicine Resident, received the American College of Gastroenterology 2022 Medical Resident Clinical Research Award for the project entitled “Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA from Colorectal Cancer Patient Sera Using Primer Extension PCR”. This competitive Award was received by only five grantees with applications from the US and Canada. The Award also will support Dr. Anderson’s attendance at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting in October 2022, where he will present a poster on his most recent results.
New grants funded from April 2022 through July 2022
