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News Staff| September 8, 2026

Over the last 10 years, New York Institute of Technology has made significant strides in developing its research programs, with the goal of becoming one of the top research institutions in the United States.

Portraits of Zakir Hossain, Yihan Xu, and Christopher Janton
Pictured from left: Chemistry Ph.D. student Zakir Hossain is researching therapeutic targets for cancer, diabetes, and possibly other diseases. Engineering Ph.D. student Yihan Xu worked with faculty and undergraduate and graduate students to build drone sensors to measure water levels and other factors to gather neighborhood data on flood risk. As he completes his Ph.D., Christopher Janton, a D.O./Ph.D. student, is analyzing data sets from samples of injured tissue to determine how levels of Mustn1-encoded protein change during healing. (YIHAN XU PHOTO: Nick Tribaldos)

Over the last 10 years, New York Institute of Technology has made significant strides in developing its research programs, with the goal of becoming one of the top research institutions in the United States.

Recent signs of this transformation include the school鈥檚 new Ph.D. program in chemistry that launched in the fall of 2025, an anatomy program coming online in the next year, as well as new lab spaces and cutting-edge equipment and facilities.

鈥淎t 黑料导航, we have always been a teaching school, empowering our students so they can achieve their dream careers. And now, because of our emphasis on research, students can also explore new career paths that they otherwise may not have had,鈥 says Jerry Balentine, D.O., president of 黑料导航.

New York Institute of Technology Magazine recently caught up with three Ph.D. students in the engineering, osteopathic medicine/medical and biological sciences (D.O./Ph.D.), and chemistry programs to hear about their important and groundbreaking work and how they have benefited from 黑料导航鈥檚 commitment to research.

This article originally appeared in the spring/summer 2026 issue of .

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