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This year’s Crown Awards video celebrated our front line heroes—physicians, researchers, staff, students, and trainees—who have responded so valiantly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Columbia University COVID researchers are working to improve coronavirus testing, find new antivirals, and develop new ways to prevent transmission.
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A new nationwide study of more than 50,000 individuals—coordinated by Columbia researchers—is now underway to determine factors that predict disease severity and long-term health impacts of COVID-19.
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A nasal spray created by Columbia researchers prevented transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in ferrets, suggesting the spray could also prevent transmission of the coronavirus in people.
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- December 11, 2014
Malaria drug resistance in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene in the disease-causing parasite, a Columbia-led study has found.
- December 8, 2014
Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop a model that forecasts the severity of flu and could have applications for predicting other infectious diseases.
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- December 3, 2014
Columbia nursing students launch campaign to keep New Yorkers’ hands warm while raising funds to donate latex gloves to Ebola workers in West Africa.
- November 26, 2014
Plans are under way for Columbia Ebola experts to set up a state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory in the heart of the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
- November 12, 2014
While celebrating Dr. Spencer’s recovery, his colleagues have renewed their commitment to raising public understanding of the disease.
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- November 12, 2014
Reducing the time between Ebola diagnosis and treatment could dramatically alter the shape and size of the outbreak, says Columbia's Wafaa El-Sadr, MD.
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- October 17, 2014
Rat population of New York City carries variety of disease-causing microbes.
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- October 6, 2014
Columbia Nursing confronts the Ebola outbreak, a tragic, textbook example of a public health crisis.
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- August 5, 2014
CUMC experts in infectious disease and public health are keeping the public informed about the outbreak and the potential of the virus to spread.
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The Wall Street JournalAugust 4, 2014Topic
