Tom Maniatis discusses the potential of precision medicine and how success will depend on Columbia’s commitment to building and enhancing multiple disciplines related to the field.
Celebrates acknowledges faculty, staff, and students at CUMC who receive major research grants or earn prestigious honors, as well as gifts made by donors.
A diet high in refined carbohydrates may increase risks for not just obesity and diabetes, but also depression, according to a study by Columbia psychiatry researchers.
By day, Rick Rausch, 34, is a research worker at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. By night, he sits in a booth at Yankee Stadium providing statistics for the radio voices of the New York Yankees.
Some 100 million people in southeast Asia drink from shallow wells originally drilled to provide germ-free water, but many are contaminated with arsenic. Columbia researchers, including Mailman School scientists, are working to combat the issue.