News and Events

News and Events

American Skin Association and Paul and Irma Milstein Family Foundation support development of automated melanoma detector for skin cancer screening

Researchers at The Rockefeller University have developed an automated technology that combines imaging with digital analysis and machine learning to help physicians detect melanoma at its early stages. This work was supported by American Skin Association, whose chairman is Howard P. Milstein, with additional support from the Paul and Irma Milstein Family Foundation and the National…

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Howard Milstein receives prestigious Marco Polo Award in Beijing

The Chinese government granted its prestigious Marco Polo Award to Howard P. Milstein, CEO of New York Private Bank & Trust and its operating bank Emigrant Bank, for his contribution to the exchange of international talents through The Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation. The award was presented in Beijing on October 26 at a…

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Major civic and civil rights figures come together for launch of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s new PBS documentary Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

At an evening reception and screening hosted by the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation at the Times Center in Midtown Manhattan, major civic and civil rights figures celebrated the newest Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series by Emmy- and Peabody-award winning Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Black America Since Martin Luther King Jr.: And Still…

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Howard and Georgeanna Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine announces Abby and Howard Milstein Awards in Reproductive Medicine

As part of its mission to support vital and innovative research in the field of reproductive medicine, the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine announced today that it has awarded a second year of funding of $200,000 to co-investigators working on a translational research project that will attempt to identify noninvasive parameters capable…

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Howard Milstein, FDNY Commissioner and New York Blood Center Honor Bone Marrow Donors

Howard P. Milstein, Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro and Christopher D. Hillyer, M.D., President and CEO of New York Blood Center joined on 4/30/16 to add the names of eight FDNY bone marrow donors to the Honor Roll of Life at the 12th annual induction ceremony at FDNY Headquarters. Firefighter Fredrick Perdue, 46, met the…

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