Shawn Rhoads
@shawnrhoadsphd.com
Assistant Professor @ ISMMS
NIH Director's Early Independence Awardee
Lindau Nobel Laureate Young Scientist
PI @ sinclaboratory.com
Using computational models, fMRI, & intracranial EEG to study social inference, learning, empathy, loneliness, & well-being
NIH Director's Early Independence Awardee
Lindau Nobel Laureate Young Scientist
PI @ sinclaboratory.com
Using computational models, fMRI, & intracranial EEG to study social inference, learning, empathy, loneliness, & well-being
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Shawn Rhoads
@shawnrhoadsphd.com
· Sep 22
📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall
We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply
#comppsychiatry #socialneuro
We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply
#comppsychiatry #socialneuro
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✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder.
If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!
Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!
Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems
Mount Sinai is hiring a Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!
careers.mountsinai.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder.
If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!
Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!
Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
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Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠
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📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊
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🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
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doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
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Redirecting
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
👇
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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Understanding and explaining differences across minds in social interaction: insights from social neuroscience and clinical psychiatry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Understanding and explaining differences across minds in social interaction: insights from social neuroscience and clinical psychiatry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
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Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
jamanetwork.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
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Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis
Abstract. In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in time series models may impact power. When collinearity is identified after data collection, rese...
direct.mit.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs
Healthy individuals typically attribute successes to internal causes, such as their abilities, and failures to external factors, like bad luck. In contrast, individuals with depression and low self-es...
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Are reinforcement learning models complete accounts of decisions from experience if they ignore explicit memory?
In this new preprint, we show that people indeed form robust explicit memory representations that flexibly guide later decisions.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Are reinforcement learning models complete accounts of decisions from experience if they ignore explicit memory?
In this new preprint, we show that people indeed form robust explicit memory representations that flexibly guide later decisions.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Are reinforcement learning models complete accounts of decisions from experience if they ignore explicit memory?
In this new preprint, we show that people indeed form robust explicit memory representations that flexibly guide later decisions.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Are reinforcement learning models complete accounts of decisions from experience if they ignore explicit memory?
In this new preprint, we show that people indeed form robust explicit memory representations that flexibly guide later decisions.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Thrilled to be part of this fantastic new project led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and supported by @bipolardiscoveries.org. Grateful to collaborate with an outstanding team — Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. James Murrough and others — and looking forward to the work ahead!
PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thrilled to be part of this fantastic new project led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and supported by @bipolardiscoveries.org. Grateful to collaborate with an outstanding team — Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. James Murrough and others — and looking forward to the work ahead!
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others @natcomms.nature.com
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64424-9When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial, mutually costly, altruistic, and instrumentally harmful contexts.
dlvr.it
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others @natcomms.nature.com
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Excellent post by the creator of the hoax FormatMyPaper.com.
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
ubadah.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excellent post by the creator of the hoax FormatMyPaper.com.
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
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Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else?
@shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉
nature.com/articles/s41...
@shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉
nature.com/articles/s41...
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others - Nature Communications
When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial, mutually costly, altruistic,...
nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else?
@shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉
nature.com/articles/s41...
@shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉
nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
ICYMI: Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others @natcomms.nature.com
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64424-9When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial, mutually costly, altruistic, and instrumentally harmful contexts.
dlvr.it
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ICYMI: Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others @natcomms.nature.com
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Reposted by Shawn Rhoads
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: By the Numbers
✨Fully integrated w/ #IcahnMountSinai
✨#11 in #NIH funding: $495.1 M
✨Embedded in #MountSinaiNYC, one of the largest academic medical systems in NY metropolitan area
👉Learn who we are & how we excel: reports.mountsinai.org/article/grad...
✨Fully integrated w/ #IcahnMountSinai
✨#11 in #NIH funding: $495.1 M
✨Embedded in #MountSinaiNYC, one of the largest academic medical systems in NY metropolitan area
👉Learn who we are & how we excel: reports.mountsinai.org/article/grad...
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: By the Numbers
✨Fully integrated w/ #IcahnMountSinai
✨#11 in #NIH funding: $495.1 M
✨Embedded in #MountSinaiNYC, one of the largest academic medical systems in NY metropolitan area
👉Learn who we are & how we excel: reports.mountsinai.org/article/grad...
✨Fully integrated w/ #IcahnMountSinai
✨#11 in #NIH funding: $495.1 M
✨Embedded in #MountSinaiNYC, one of the largest academic medical systems in NY metropolitan area
👉Learn who we are & how we excel: reports.mountsinai.org/article/grad...