The high-priority initiatives are: §Automated technologies for stem cell research §Metabolomics (using sophisticated instruments to analyze all metabolic products in a specific cell, tissue, organism or biological condition) §High-throughput systems for shRNA and chemical genomics screening (short hairpin RNA (shRNA) can be used to selectively turn off any gene in a cell; by observing the effect of a gene's silencing, researchers can determine, for example, whether that gene's protein product is responsible for a cancer cell's malignant behavior) §Integrated Imaging Resource/Multi-Modal Image Analysis (establishing an Integrated Image Resource would allow Einstein to continuously image living tissues from nanometer to centimeter scale) §Clinical Research Enterprise/Einstein-Montefiore Interface (a major priority of the revised plan is to strengthen the Clinical Research Plan that links Einstein with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Einstein) §Center for Behavioral, Social Science and Effectiveness Research (smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise and other behavioral and social factors lead to major diseases affecting the Bronx and the U.S. as a whole) §Institute for Clinical Genomics and Epigenomics

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