Christopher Appoldt
Big Funds for Breakthrough Research BY RON GOLDBERG
Five years ago, NYIT had just one National Institutes of Health-funded study. This year, there are six. At a time when fewer and fewer proposals are being funded, how does NYIT beat the odds?
Kurt Amsler, Ph.D., associate dean for research at NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, in a laboratory on NYIT’s Old Westbury campus where he views 3-D images of epithelial cells through a Leica confocal microscope. 17