Latest News Mount Sinai Establishes Eye and Vision Research Institute to Pursue Clinical Research By Staff Wednesday, January 18, 2017 12:18 AM NEW YORK—The Mount Sinai Health System earlier this week announced plans to develop the Mount Sinai/New York Eye and Ear (NYEE) Eye and Vision Research Institute, a facility that the health system said would be “the first of its kind in the New York City metropolitan region.” It also will expand Mount Sinai’s eye and vision research portfolio, according to the announcement. One of the goals of the initiative is to bring together eye and vision researchers from both Mount Sinai Hospital and NYEE in a way that fosters collaborations between faculty at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and academic departments throughout the Mount Sinai Health System, according to the announcement.“New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is on the forefront of clinical research in ophthalmology, and the creation of this institute will further advance eye and vision research by capitalizing on Mount Sinai’s basic science and translational research strengths,” said James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, Delafield-Rodgers professor and system chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Mount Sinai Health System, and president, NYEE. “We look forward to collaborating with these institutes and benefiting from the expertise of their faculty to leverage our own strengths since not all research breakthroughs in vision science emanate from ophthalmology alone.”The inaugural director of the new institute is Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA, professor of ophthalmology and medicine, Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai, and director of the Uveitis division at Mount Sinai Hospital.The Mount Sinai/NYEE Eye and Vision Research Institute will combine expertise from other fields of medicine to find breakthrough treatments and cures for eye conditions and disease, and will further research that can preserve vision and/or reverse blindness.