Innovation and Collaboration With Mount Sinai: Research Cores, Data, and Technology
Mount Sinai’s culture of innovation and collaboration has made it one of the country’s most prestigious research institutions. As one of New York City’s largest academic medical systems, with more than 9,000 physicians working across seven hospitals and more than 350 research labs, the Mount Sinai Health System provides an interdisciplinary environment for some of the world’s most talented researchers to do their work.
These experts are aided and supported by an outstanding complement of research cores— including the Dean’s Centers of Research Excellence (CoREs)—patient data resources, clinical trial capabilities, and advanced technologies.
The following is a list of the resources available to our external collaborators, which offer powerful tools for discovering and testing new drugs, large, diverse patient data and biobanks, robust clinical trials and advanced labs and imaging capabilities, and more. All share a single mission—to help solve the most complex problems in research and clinical care.
Click on the hyperlinks for more information about specific programs.
For further information, please contact members of the Strategic Alliance and Program Management team within Mount Sinai Innovation Partners: Joy Dicker, Managing Director ( joy.dicker@mssm.edu ), and Irina Furman, Director ( irina.furman@mssm.edu ).
Analytical Services
Biomarkers in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Program
Develops biomarker-based tools for risk stratification and therapeutic monitoring in kidney disease for clinical research using electronic medical record data, biospecimens, and pathway analysis.
Flow Cytometry CoRE
Provides instrumentation, expertise, and education required to incorporate flow cytometry and cell sorting into research.
Center for Advanced Genomics Technology
A world-class next-generation sequencing, single-cell, and spatial -omics resource supporting diverse translational and basic research, led by expert scientific leadership and a multidisciplinary team. The Core has contributed to hundreds of high-impact publications and provides comprehensive wet-lab and highperformance computational capabilities to enable advanced genomic discoveries across a wide range of diseases and applications.
Human Immune Monitoring Center
Integrates scientific expertise with leading-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive and longitudinal immune monitoring of patients during exposure to therapies.
Metabolomics CoRE
Offers advanced mass spectrometry-based metabolomics assays.
Neurometabolomics and Neuroinformatics Co RE
Provides mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and bioinformatics services, supporting projects from sample preparation to data interpretation across pathways, including carbon, lipid, short-chain fatty acids, and hormone metabolism.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility/Liquid
Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) Facility
Provides advanced instrumentation and user training formolecular analysis, supporting diverse research needs from small molecules to biomacromolecules and intact proteins.
OCCAM-Immune
Spin-off of the Human Immune Monitoring Center dedicated to industry collaborations to identify biomarkers of response and resistance to novel drug targets.
Zhang Bioinformatics Laboratory
Provides integrated analytical services, including genomeand proteome-level analysis, clinical data integration, and training in computational tools to support research.
Biobanking and Repositories
BioMe BioBank
Enables large-scale studies through an electronic medical record-linked biobank.
Biorepository and Pathology CoR
Supports tissue and body fluid procurement, storage, and tracking.
Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program
Program aiming to sequence the genomes of 1 million diverse patients to advance precision medicine and integrate genetics into everyday care.
Neuropathology Brain Bank and Research CoRE
Offers comprehensive neuropathological services, including advanced histology, tissue processing, and access to a well-curated brain tissue collection.
Clinical Trial and Data Services
Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness (C-VaRPP)
Provides the framework for studying how the human immune system protects us from deadly viruses and uses this knowledge to generate diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics. The Center conducts pragmatic observational studies, performs comprehensive characterizations of immune responses as well as viral pathogens and provides experimental services for pre clinical and post market studies using human derived biological materials.
Institute for Transformative Clinical Trials (ITCT)
Offers expertise to design, conduct, and analyze innovative clinical trials.
International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (InCHOIR)
Serves as an interdisciplinary clinical and data coordinating center.
Translational Transplant Research Center (TTRC)
Supports translational and clinical transplantation studies with expertise in transplant immunobiology and offers preclinical services, including heart, trachea, liver, and kidney transplantation models.
