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Montefiore's Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students

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Einstein Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students

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Making Long-Term Memories Requires Nerve-Cell Damage

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Research by Einstein Scientists Featured in Special Issue of Diabetes Care

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Einstein Community Celebrates Pi Day

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Iron Restriction Keeps Blood Stem Cells Young

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$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School

Ruth Gottesman, Ed.D., chair of the Einstein Board of Trustees and Montefiore Health System board member, has donated $1 billion dollars to Einstein— the largest gift made to any medical school in the country—ensuring free tuition in perpetuity. Dr. Gottesman is also professor emerita of pediatrics.

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The Next Chapter of Science

Xingxing Zang, Ph.D., says chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-immune cell therapy, particularly CAR-T therapy, is a major advancing field with potential to revolutionize cancer treatment, particularly for leukemia and lymphoma. Dr. Zang is a member of the National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and professor of microbiology & immunology, of oncology, of medicine, and of urology, and the Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Cancer Research at Einstein.

What Is a Typical Degree of Cognitive Ability For a Person In Their 80s?

Nir Barzilai, M.D., says 2024 presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump, whose parents lived over 90, may be aging more slowly than people who do not have longevity in their family. Dr. Barzilai is professor of medicine and of genetics, the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair in Aging Research, and director of the Institute for Aging Research at Einstein, and an endocrinologist at Montefiore.

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When a Drug Becomes a Child’s Last Hope

Einstein scientist Vern Schramm, Ph.D., never imagined that his basic research into enzymes would intersect with a 2-year-old girl dying from an incurable form of blood cancer. He and that girl (Katie Lambertson, now a teenager) and her parents share their stories.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a part of Montefiore, is a premier, research-intensive medical school dedicated to innovative biomedical investigation and to the development of ethical and compassionate physicians and scientists. Inspired by the words of our namesake, we have from our inception welcomed students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds who strive to enhance human health in the community and beyond. This is an attribute in which Albert Einstein took great pride when consenting to the use of his name in conjunction with the medical school.

Einstein’s first medical school class

1955

Two years after scientist and humanitarian Albert Einstein agrees to lend his name to a new medical school, the College of Medicine welcomes its first class of students (pictured here on graduation day, 1959).

Einstein affiliates with Montefiore

1963

Einstein affiliates with Montefiore. Seated, from left: Jacob W. Schwab, president, Montefiore Hospital; Samuel Belkin, Ph.D., president, Yeshiva University. Standing, from left: Marcus D. Kogel, M.D., dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Martin Cherkasky, M.D., director, Montefiore.

Montefiore assumes operation Weiler Hospital

1969

Montefiore assumes operational responsibility for Einstein’s Jack D. Weiler Hospital.

Departments of medicine merge

1980

The Einstein and Montefiore departments of medicine merge, combining the strengths of both campuses. Louis Sherwood, M.D., becomes the first unified chair of medicine.

Montefiore employs joint faculty

1990

Montefiore employs joint Einstein-Montefiore faculty.

Reaffirming the partnership

2009

Dean Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., and Steven M. Safyer, M.D., president and CEO of Montefiore, sign a renewal agreement reaffirming the partnership between Einstein and Montefiore. The two institutions agree that Einstein will administer research grants awarded to Montefiore.

Einstein and Montefiore jointly recruit faculty

2012-2014

Continuing the effort begun in 1977 to develop unified departments, each headed by a single chair, Einstein and Montefiore jointly recruit Judy L. Aschner, M.D. (pediatrics), pictured at right; Mark P. Schoenberg, M.D. (urology); Matthew N. Bartels, M.D. (physical medicine and rehabilitation); and Sharmila K. Makhija, M.D. (obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health).

Yeshiva University-Montefiore agreement finalized

2015

The YU-Montefiore agreement is finalized. Montefiore has operational and financial responsibility for Einstein, and Einstein becomes its own legal entity. Transfer to Montefiore of Einstein clinical programs (e.g., the Division of Substance Abuse, the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center) is complete.