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Years of progress in reducing benzodiazepine prescribing for older Americans stalled after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Columbia researchers have found.

The grant establishes Columbia, in collaboration with New York State Psychiatric Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine, as a site in the ARIA IMPACT Network, an autism research collaborative.

Columbia scientists caught a malaria parasite in the act of breaking into a blood cell, revealing a parasite machine that reshapes the cell. They then designed a mini-protein to jam it.

Trials of two experimental sickle cell gene therapies—conducted at Columbia and other centers—show that new gene-editing techniques reshape blood cells and free patients from frequent pain crises.