Oct 6, 2004 -- Scientific research conducted by Alex Kushnir, a Yeshiva College junior and Monsey, NY, native, was featured in an article in The Journal News, a Gannett daily newspaper serving Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties. Mr. Kushnir’s research in the molecular cardiology lab of Dr. Andrew R. Marks, professor and chair of the department of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, began when he approached Dr. A.K.M. Mollah, assistant professor of biology at YC, about research opportunities. The two teamed-up with Dr. Marks and Mr. Kushnir spends about eight hours per week during the school year – and full-time during the summer – working directly under Dr. Xander Wehrens. Mr. Kushnir has presented his research at international conferences in Israel and Scotland. His research will also appear in Ryanodine Receptors: Function and Dysfunction in Clinical Disease (Kluwer Academic Publishers), a textbook edited by Drs. Wehrens and Marks that is set to be released in November during the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in New Orleans. Visit: www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/100604/b0106medbook.html