August 11, 2022: Dr. Maria Kontaridis, the Executive Director of the Masonic Medical Research Institute, is the new Vice Chair of the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council Leadership Committee. The two-year, volunteer position is progressive, meaning she will be the next Chair of the committee in 2024. Dr. […]

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August 2, 2022  Heart damage has been noticed among many patients hospitalized with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19), leading many to wonder how it is that the virus affects the heart. New research reveals that the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 can lead to […]

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July 29, 2022    Ten weeks of intensive science work and exploration was celebrated with a graduation ceremony on Friday, July 29, for the Summer Fellows of the Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI). The Fellows presented in-depth science presentations to an audience of researchers and dignitaries.     Special guests […]

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June 30, 2022:  Dr. Maria Kontaridis, the Executive Director of the Masonic Medical Research Institute in Utica, New York, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research. This prestigious recognition was announced at the ISHR World Congress in Berlin, Germany, June 12-15, 2022. A rare honor, […]

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June 22, 2022: Imagine, if scientists had a map of the heart, so granular in its accuracy that it even profiled details of the heart at the cellular level. What if we could zoom in even further, via single nucleus profiling, to peer inside the heart with a molecular view? […]

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June 22, 2022 Undergraduates in MMRI’s Summer Fellowship Program were interviewed about their experience by WKTV, an affiliate of NBC, CBS, and The CW Plus. The Summer Fellows are outstanding college students who are given the unique experience to work in the preeminent biomedical lab of Central New York, Masonic […]

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