The CUIMC Healthy Aging Initiative will host its first Healthspan Extension Summit later this spring, highlighting the work of CUIMC researchers in basic, clinical, and population health sciences.
An inventor of new ways to manipulate molecules inside living cells to treat a wide range of conditions was inspired to become a scientist after reading the mysteries of Sherlock Holmes.
Betsy Ladyzhets spoke to Melissa Stockwell, a pediatrician and public health researcher at Columbia University who was one of the lead authors on the study and helps lead RECOVER’s pediatric research.
At the CUIMC Well-Being Fair, employees participated in well-being activities and received information and resources related to well-being, heart health, mindfulness, and relaxation.
Alade McKen, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for staff at CUIMC, discusses the top priorities for 2024 and the role DEI plays during moments of upheaval.
New faculty who joined VP&S in November 2023 include two who have an interest in organ transplantation in children: One is a pediatric psychologist, the other a pediatric cardiologist.
The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a research fellow at Columbia University.
The Afternoon of Science series at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons continued Feb. 5 with presentations from Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics faculty.
“To find that Black women were murdered at a rate of six times that of white women was really pretty shocking,” says lead study author Bernadine Waller, a research fellow at Columbia University.
