“He was fascinated by how people behaved, and why they behaved that way,” said Prudence Fisher, a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Andrea Califano, a systems biologist at Columbia University who is directing the New York Biohub, said they hope to make significant progress on decoding the immune “language” in three years.
In his new role leading the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York, Andrea Califano will bring together scientists from several universities to engineer the immune system to detect and treat disease.
Columbia's Andrea Califano will lead the new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York in its mission to harness and engineer immune cells for the early detection and eradication of human disease.
A surgeon with a graduate degree in medical education and an emergency medicine physician with an interest in virtual reality research are among the new full-time faculty who joined VP&S in July 2023.
“Next to air,” water is “really the most important thing for maintenance of your health,” said Tsion Firew, a physician at Columbia University who has worked on water access in humanitarian settings.
