• Press Release

Chef Floyd Cardoz Wins Top Chef Masters and 100,000 Dollars on Behalf of Mount Sinai

Chef Cardoz won Top Chef Master’s grand prize of $100,000 on behalf of The Tisch Cancer Institute’s Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund at Mount Sinai.

  • New York, NY
  • (June 16, 2011)

Chef Floyd Cardoz, competing against 11 other award-winning chefs on the third season of Bravo’s hit show "Top Chef," has been awarded the title of Top Chef Master and the grand prize of $100,000 on behalf of The Tisch Cancer Institute’s Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Chef Cardoz also won $10,000 earlier in the season.

"Winning Top Chef Masters for the Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund is very gratifying to me," said Chef Cardoz, former Executive Chef/Partner of Tabla and soon-to-be Executive Chef/Partner of a new Danny Meyer restaurant. "I’ve seen the passion this fund ignites in young researchers and it’s an honor for me to be able to support a program that inspires the next generation of scientists to develop new approaches to cancer research."

The Tisch Cancer Institute’s Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund was created to foster the development of young scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who are pioneers in cancer research. The goal of this award is to support promising young, motivated students as they pursue innovative cancer research with the hope of translating these findings to patient care.

"We’re thrilled about Chef Cardoz’s accomplishments and his support of the Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund," said Steven J. Burakoff, MD, Director of The Tisch Cancer Institute. "His generous donation greatly supports our mission to aid exceptional young scientists in developing new approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer."

Co-Directors of the fund, Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences , and Analisa DiFeo, PhD, Instructor in Genetics and Genomic Sciences, credit their own growth as researchers to the mentorship and support they received as young scientists at Mount Sinai.

"We are deeply proud and grateful to be a part of the incredible vision and passion that Chef Floyd Cardoz brings to food and to mentorship. His support for the Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund will be invaluable to the mission and vision of Tisch Cancer Institute," said Dr. Narla.

"Having the opportunity to have trained and now being a member of the faculty here we realize more than ever how special the bond is between the members of the Mount Sinai community. To be a part of Floyd’s community and to bring him into our family has been an incredibly uplifting and memorable experience for us," said Dr. DiFeo.

To find out more about the Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund and to support its mission, go to http://www.mssm.edu/research/labs/yscrf.

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's best hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.

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