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Medical students at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons will graduate early and be offered temporary employment at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to help with COVID-19.
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Poh Lian Lim, MD ’91, directs an isolation unit of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore and is a consultant in the Communicable Disease Division of the Ministry of Health there.
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Match Day celebrations were held online this year, but the tradition of Columbia University medical students matching to stellar residencies held strong.
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A recent report about a fleeting fitness craze from the 70s may have revealed the identity of the first African American physician at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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- May 17, 2018
Researchers estimate the heritability of hundreds of diseases by looking at electronic health data in a completely new way.
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- May 15, 2018
Emily Weidenbaum found her path to medical school through Columbia's Postbac Premed Program. Her exposure to women's health at VP&S led her to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
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- May 15, 2018
Fatimah Alkhunaizi's work in a student-run clinic for asylum seekers was one of her most influential experiences at VP&S.
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- May 11, 2018
For Mother’s Day, we talked with neuroscientist Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD, whose research delves into the biological mysteries of the parent-child bond.
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- May 4, 2018
An experimental immunotherapy improved one-year survival, as compared to historical rates, in a small trial of patients with advanced uveal melanoma.
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- May 3, 2018
Neuroscientist Carol Mason, PhD, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences along with 104 other new members and foreign associates.
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- May 3, 2018
The NIH's All of Us Research Program—an unprecedented effort to advance precision medicine—is now open for enrollment.
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- April 27, 2018
Columbia psychiatrist Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD, talks about new screening guidelines she co-authored to help pediatricians detect and treat depression in adolescents.
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- April 23, 2018
Lorraine S. Symington, PhD, the Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- April 19, 2018
A new computer algorithm deciphers DNA’s most well-kept secrets and may help researchers find hidden links between genes and disease.
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