Ben Izar's lab is a pioneer in combining single cell techniques, genome-editing, and systems biology to explore the cancer field’s most pressing problems.
Including BRCA1 testing with prenatal carrier screening could identify people at risk of breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer at a time when cancer screening could save their lives.
A study from Columbia researchers suggests that changing a single letter in the DNA code of selected genes in T cells may supercharge cell therapies against cancer.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center has named leading physician-scientist Dr. Gary Schwartz chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine and associate director for research of its Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.