Collaboration and Achievement
Collaboration—among specialists in different disciplines, and between clinicians and bench scientists—is a hallmark of the Mount Sinai Health System and our Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology. That approach is spotlighted in many of the articles in this year’s report.
In a significant advance for fecal microbiota transplantation, our lead clinical expert worked with a skilled immunologist/geneticist to identify specific bacterial strains that were especially likely to engraft successfully, a finding that could help make the procedure more precise and targeted.