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Coagulation plays an important role in disease pro-
gression and Professor Nguyen studies the relation-
ship between antiphospholipids and coagulation in his
project,
The Role Antiphopholipid (aPL) Antibodies in
Tumor Progression to Malignancy in Breast Cancer.
This two-year, $17,633 award from Montefiore Medical
Center is a breast cancer study in collaboration with
Jacob Rand and Elaine Lin of Albert Einstein College
of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Using a mouse
model, they examine antiphospholipid syndrome—an
autoimmune disease that provokes blood clots—and
its connection to breast cancer. “We are in the infancy
stages, but we hope to obtain a better molecular
marker to identify people with dormancy for malig-
nancy of breast cancer.”
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York
Professor Ehrensaft is trained in the treatment and
assessment of marital violence in adults. Her project,
Can Family Based Prevention of Conduct Problems
Prevent Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV) Development,
a
four-year, $1.2 million CDC, National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control grant, is a methodological
attempt to examine whether treating conduct disorder
prevents young children from entering into violent rela-
tionships as teenagers. A sample of 92 disadvantaged
children whose older siblings were adjudicated juve-
nile delinquents were selected from Manhattan and
Bronx Family Courts and divided into a treatment and
control group. Preliminary findings show the treatment
group was less likely to report that their friends used
aggressive behavior in relationships, suggesting that
intervention works to reduce the risk of conduct disor-
der. “Exposure to treatment has led to reduced accep-
tance of aggression and we need to understand how
to target children at risk with early intervention and
provide them with fully integrated services.”
Andrew V. Nguyen,
Assistant Professor,
Biological Sciences & Geology
Queensborough Community College
Miriam K. Ehrensaft,
Associate Professor, Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice