The Graduate School is housed within the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, a free-standing 150,000 square-foot building on the grounds of North Shore University Hospital. The Feinstein Institute also includes an additional 15,000 square-foot of research space at Zucker Hillside Hospital, a neuropsychiatric hospital that is part of the LIJ Medical Center complex located 2.5 miles from North Shore University Hospital. The facilities of The Feinstein Institute include modern molecular biology laboratories, a comparative physiology laboratory, clinical research space, and office space for faculty and graduate students. The Feinstein Institute also provides several other key core facilities, which provide students with centralized, state-of-the-art technologies to support their research efforts.
The Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine
An important resource of the Graduate School and The Feinstein Institute, which enhances training in molecular medicine, is an NIH-sponsored General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) with facilities for both out-patient and in-patient translational and clinical studies. This is one of only three NIH-designated GCRCs in the U.S. that is part of a research institute rather than a medical school, and the only one that is part of a clinical health system. The Herman and Susan Merinoff Center for Patient-Oriented Research, which includes the GCRC, provides support services such as medicinal chemistry, medicinal biochemistry, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, human physiology, assistance with regulatory oversight and biostatistics to the Institute and the Graduate School.
The medical libraries at North Shore University Hospital and LIJ are available to Elmezzi students. The combined holdings of the two libraries consist of 3,210 journals and 20,069 books. The institute also maintains a reading room with current and previous issues of many journals relevant to molecular medicine. In addition, faculty have electronic access to the on-line journal holdings of either Albert Einstein College of Medicine or New York University Medical School, which thereby makes those journals available to the students. Students get copies of older publications within 24 hours at no charge, through a library consortium.
