Stony Brook University
Organization background

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Project background

Though great strides have been made in understanding and curing disease, there are still many diseases such as cancer which claim a very high percentage of patients lives. The quest to understand the working of these diseases and develop cures for them is a never-ending quest, that is best addressed at medical research institutes and hospitals worldwide. One of the goals of GKF is to encourage such research by helping fund programs in medical schools and hospitals.

The Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) (located on the east campus of Stony Brook University) is part of SUNY Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook also includes a College of Arts and Science, an Engineering School, a Law School, an Athletics Department, and the Staller Center for Performing Arts). RSOM consists of eight basic science and 18 clinical departments providing preclinical and clinical education of medical students including graduate, postgraduate and continuing education. Stony Brook Medicine is one of the leading academic medical centers in the United States — faculty, students and residents serve more than 31,000 inpatients and 230,000 outpatients each year. As a major research university, Stony Brook seeks to improve health and save lives by bridging the gap between laboratory discoveries and clinical applications.

RSOM has a new Medical and Research Translation (MART) building and Hospital Pavilion, including a new Stony Brook Children's Hospital. The MART is a home for understanding the basis for human disease, where scientific discovery is translated into clinical research, and where promising patient results can be turned into FDA-approved healthcare diagnostic and treatment options. As part of its core mission, the MART is devoted to cancer research and care, and also houses advanced biomedical imaging and biomedical informatics, including a PET/CT scanner. With 225,000 square feet, the 10-story Hospital Pavilion contains 150 inpatient beds, of which two floors are dedicated to the new Stony Brook Children ' s Hospital. The Pavilion also includes a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, adolescent unit, procedure suite, hematology/oncology unit, medical/surgical units, and expanded imaging department, and state-of-the-art adult critical care and cardiac care units. It also includes 12 new classrooms, and a 300-seat auditorium.

To further its goals, RSOM recruits top students and delivers a world-class education. However, as the cost of medical school rises — in part due to diminishing federal and state funding – the school ' s ability to remain competitively priced among its peers requires increasing endowed scholarship support for its students. For this, the school reaches out to alumni and foundations.

GKF contribution to Stony Brook University