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Medicine

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114
Citations
40681
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Maria I. New is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Vitamin D Research Studies
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research

Recent publications by Maria I. New demonstrate focus on hormonal functions and bone metabolism. Selected papers include:

  • First-in-class humanized FSH blocking antibody targets bone and fat, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FSH-blocking therapeutic for osteoporosis, 2022, eLife
  • Brain atlas for glycoprotein hormone receptors at single-transcript level, 2022, eLife
  • Repurposing erectile dysfunction drugs tadalafil and vardenafil to increase bone mass, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Brain Atlas for Glycoprotein Hormone Receptors at Single-Transcript Level, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Maria I. New frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Tony Yuen
  • Mone Zaidi
  • Anisa Gumerova
  • Funda Korkmaz
  • Vitaly Ryu

Their work has been published regularly in notable venues such as eLife, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Orthopaedic Research®, and Cancer Research.

Maria I. New has been recognized with several honors, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

Best Publications

  • High Frequency of Nonclassical Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency

    Phyllis W. Speiser;B O Dupont;Pablo Rubinstein;Alberto Piazza

  • Genotyping steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency: hormonal reference data.

    Maria I. New;Franziska Lorenzen;Alan Jay Lerner;Brenda Kohn

  • Structure of human steroid 21-hydroxylase genes

    Perrin C. White;Maria I. New;Bo Dupont

  • Disease expression and molecular genotype in congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.

    Phyllis W. Speiser;Jakob Dupont;Deguang Zhu;Jorge Serrat

  • A Syndrome of Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess Associated with Defects in the Peripheral Metabolism of Cortisol

    S Ulick;L S Levine;P Gunczler;G Zanconato

  • Two genes encoding steroid 21-hydroxylase are located near the genes encoding the fourth component of complement in man

    Perrin C. White;Dario Grossberger;Barbara J. Onufer;David D. Chaplin

  • The human gene for 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Structure, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization.

    Grace M. Tannin;Anil K. Agarwal;Carl Monder;Maria I. New

  • Addison’s Disease 2001

    Svetlana Ten;Maria New;Noel Maclaren

  • The myokine irisin increases cortical bone mass

    Graziana Colaianni;Concetta Cuscito;Teresa Mongelli;Paolo Pignataro

  • Nonclassical 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency

    Maria I. New

  • Sexual orientation in women with classical or non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia as a function of degree of prenatal androgen excess

    Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg;Curtis Dolezal;Susan W. Baker;Maria I. New

  • HDAC inhibitor-based therapies: Can we interpret the code?

    Maria New;Heidi Olzscha;Nicholas B. La Thangue

  • Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency : genotype may not predict phenotype

    R C Wilson;A B Mercado;K C Cheng;M I New

  • Low plasma androgens in women with systemic lupus erythematosus

    Robert G. Lahita;H. Leon Bradlow;Ellen Ginzler;Ellen Ginzler;Songya Pang;Songya Pang

  • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. (1).

    Perrin C White;M. I. New;B. Dupont

  • Genotype–phenotype correlation in 1,507 families with congenital adrenal hyperplasia owing to 21-hydroxylase deficiency

    Maria I. New;Moolamannil Abraham;Brian Gonzalez;Miroslav Dumic

  • HLA-linked congenital adrenal hyperplasia results from a defective gene encoding a cytochrome P-450 specific for steroid 21-hydroxylation.

    Perrin C. White;Maria I. New;Bo Dupont

  • Late-Onset Adrenal Steroid 3β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Deficiency. I. A Cause of Hirsutism in Pubertal and Postpubertal Women

    Songya Pang;Alan J. Lerner;Elizabeth Stoner;Lenore S. Levine

  • EXTENSIVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: Prenatal Diagnosis for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in 532 Pregnancies

    Maria I. New;Ann Carlson;Jihad Obeid;Ian Marshall

  • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

    Maria New

Frequent Co-Authors

George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ashley B. Grossman
Ashley B. Grossman University of Oxford
Márta Korbonits
Márta Korbonits Queen Mary University of London
Aaron I. Vinik
Aaron I. Vinik Eastern Virginia Medical School
Jerome M. Hershman
Jerome M. Hershman University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth R. Feingold
Kenneth R. Feingold University of California, San Francisco
Robert I McLachlan
Robert I McLachlan Monash University
Perrin C. White
Perrin C. White The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mone Zaidi
Mone Zaidi Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John E. Morley
John E. Morley Saint Louis University

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