ConduITS News
2026 Mount Sinai CTSA Pilot Project Awardees and KL2 Scholar
Introducing the 2026 Pilot Projects Awardees and newest KL2 scholar from the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) research initiatives! The CTSA Program at Mount Sinai provides funding for clinical and translational research initiatives led by...
2026 TE Awardee – Bilal Naved, PhD
Dr. Bilal Naved, PhD, is a Faculty (Instructor) and Schmidt AI Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an MD/PhD physician scientist trainee in the Northwestern Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and...
2026 TE Awardee – Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN
Dr. Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Mount Sinai Health...
2026 TE Awardee – Yun-Soung Kim, PhD
Dr. Yun-Soung Kim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research centers on bridging engineered materials with human physiology to enable clinically...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Anuradha Lala-Trinadade, MD
Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trinadade, MD, and her team are developing SheAligned, a non-invasive, multimodal wearable platform designed for perimenopausal women. It integrates biosensing (e.g., skin temperature, heart rate variability, respiration, sleep, and sweat-based...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Benjamin Kummer, MD
Dr. Benjamin Kummer, MD, and his team, SeizAI, are using artificial intelligence to analyze smartphone videos of seizure-like episodes and distinguish epileptic seizures from functional dissociative seizures. Built on a validated machine learning model, the platform...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Jamie Hook, MD
Dr. Jamie Hook, MD, and her team, Aerosome Therapeutics, are using Aerosome-01 to target ARDS, a large, underserved market with over 200,000 U.S. cases annually, 30-45% mortality, and no FDA-approved disease-modifying therapies. Aerosome-01 is an inhaled mRNA lipid...
What is ConduITS?
ConduITS is the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program for the Mount Sinai Health System established in 2009 with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NCATS.
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