The Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai highlighted progress against Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, brain cancer and stroke in their 2023 Annual Report, which also details advancements in spin...

New research published by investigators at Cedars-Sinai advances scientific understanding of how the brain weighs decisions involving what people like or value, such as choosing which book to read, which restaurant to pick for lunch—or even, which sl...

When pharmacy staff develop an accurate medication list for high-risk patients being admitted to a hospital, medication errors—that could have led to substantial complications or even death—are significantly reduced, according to a new study led by C...

Cedars-Sinai has established a new Human Microbiome Research Institute that will support investigators studying how the microbiome, the diverse collection of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in and on the human body, plays a role in health.Suzan...

Alberto Ayala-Sarmiento, PhD, a postdoctoral scientist in the Breunig Lab, is focusing primarily on tumor modeling through genetic engineering and the development of new transgenesis tools. Ayala-Sarmiento was one of three Cedars-Sinai postdocs who w...

RESOURCESHigh Risk for Hypoglycemia Guideline Resources Ask the Expert: A Patient Approach to Preventing Hypoglycemia: A Conversation with Roma Gianchandani, MD 

New insights into the effects of a hormonal treatment for transgender men, discovered by Cedars-Sinai investigators, could have implications for the treatment of breast cancer. Transgender men who were assigned female at birth and identify today as m...

Alessandra Ciullo, PhD, who is investigating how certain molecules repair the heart after a heart attack, and Zhongzheng Fu, PhD, whose work helps explain how people learn from mistakes, are the recipients of this year’s Cedars-Sinai Bohdan (Danny) M...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have produced the most extensive analysis to date of changes in the retina—a layer of tissue at the back of the eye where visual information originates—and how those retinal changes correspond to brain and cognitive changes...

Cardiac electrophysiologist Eric Braunstein, MD, who joined the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai late last year, recently published a first-of-its kind case study in the peer-reviewed medical journal Heart Rhythm Case Reports. The case study sho...

Cedars-Sinai Welcomes Biomedical Data Science ExpertNicholas Tatonetti, PhD, an expert in biomedical data science, has joined Cedars-Sinai as the vice chair of Computational Biomedicine and associate director for Computational Oncology at Cedars-Sina...

Cedars-Sinai is the coordinating center for the newly launched Southern California Cystic Fibrosis Research Program. The program will support research into personalized treatments, with an emphasis on identifying unique cystic fibrosis mutations in p...

Cedars-Sinai’s Efforts to Combat Lower Back Pain Get $2 Million Boost From CIRMInvestigators at Cedars-Sinai have received a $2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop a new cell therapy that helps impr...

Cedars-Sinai investigators found that women who developed mood and anxiety disorders associated with pregnancy and childbirth had specific altered proteins circulating in their bloodstream in the third trimester.The study is published in the American...

Snigdha Bhowmick, PhD, is a postdoc in the laboratory of Neil Bhowmick, PhD, professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai. Her interest lies in studying the communication between tumor cells and microenvironment in liver metastasis. ...

Investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have confirmed that people who have had COVID-19 have an increased risk for new-onset diabetes—the most significant contributor to cardiovascular disease.“Our results validate early findings ...

A new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators identified a marker in the brain that controls the ability to reach and grasp, a fundamental fine motor skill that is often impaired in motor or neural injuries such as a stroke.The findings, published in...

In a large-scale nationwide study, investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have confirmed that rates of pancreatic cancer are rising—and are rising faster among younger women, particularly Black women, than among men of the same age. Their work was pu...

A new Cedars-Sinai study in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Answer ALS consortium has examined the expression of thousands of genes in stem cell generated motor neurons that are known to die in patients with amyo...

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have developed a new nanotechnology-based test that can detect and profile prostate cancers—even in microscopic amounts. Their work, published in the peer-reviewed journal nanotoday, suggests that this “liquid biopsy...

Patients who were cared for within in the Geriatric Fracture Program at Cedars-Sinai were hospitalized for less time and at a lower cost than those whose physicians did not participate in the program, according to a study by Cedars-Sinai investigator...

Investigators Closer to Predicting 2 Common Heart ConditionsTwo novel research studies from Cedars-Sinai move the needle on predicting two important heart conditions: sudden cardiac arrest, which is often fatal, and increased coronary artery calcium,...

FINDINGSThe annual incidence of sports-related sudden cardiac arrest in older adults is rare: 2 to 3 cases per 100,000 people.Of the 4,078 total sudden cardiac arrest cases studied in people 65 and older, 77 (1.9%) occurred during or following an exe...

Two novel research studies from Cedars-Sinai move the needle on predicting two important heart conditions—sudden cardiac arrest, which is often fatal, and increased coronary artery calcium, a marker of coronary artery disease that can lead to a heart...

The Cedars-Sinai Department of Biomedical Sciences has established a new division that is charged with developing a deeper understanding of the impact of social, behavioral and environmental risk factors on human diseases.  Investigators working in t...

A new Cedars-Sinai study suggests that some patients diagnosed with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)—an incurable condition that robs patients of the ability to control their behavior and cope with daily living—may instead have a ce...

Phone calls from a nurse may improve survival for patients treated for heart failure, according to a new study by investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.Heart failure occurs when the heart does not pump enough blood to support t...

A new study led by Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has determined that altering a cellular process can lead stem cells—cells from which other cells in the body develop—to die or regenerate. The findings, published...

A new study led by investigators at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found symptoms of the increasingly common cardiovascular condition known as ischemia with no obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) can negatively impact a person’s quality ...

A new analysis by Cedars-Sinai investigators is furthering the scientific community’s understanding of COVID-19 immunity by showing that similar levels of COVID-19 antibodies are reached over an extended period of time in different population groups....