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Increasingly, transformative therapies are being launched via startups emerging from university research labs, including those at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Columbia University awards the 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Pierre Chambon, Ronald M. Evans, and Bert W. O’Malley for their research—spanning over 50 years—decoding how steroid hormones and nuclear receptors regulate cell function.

A group of clinical trials showed that pregnant women can prevent excess weight gain with a healthy diet and physical activity.

By studying “overfed” mice, CUIMC researchers have found evidence for a hormone that helps obese animals return to their normal weight.