During an October 2010 presentation before the Einstein Faculty Senate, Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean, starts by detailing a sharp increase in National Institutes of Health funding for Einstein, then describes an updated strategic research plan with new areas of focus, including platform technologies, how Einstein investigators can study the interaction of genes and the environment to cause human disease, and how to make further progress in stimulating research at the Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center interface.