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Two teams at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons are working to train patients’ immune cells to seek and destroy rogue cells that cause cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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Columbia cell therapy pioneer Michel Sadelain has received the 2025 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology and the 2025 King Faisal Prize in Medicine.
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Through a trial offered at Columbia, a patient who is ineligible for existing treatments is the first to receive an experimental gene therapy.
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A multi-institutional team of researchers developed a tiny implantable microphone, paving the way for fully internal cochlear implants.
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- August 5, 2013
A study has found 18 new genes that drive an aggressive form of brain cancer, doubling the number of known driver genes of glioblastoma.
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- July 15, 2013
Researchers in the new Department of Systems Biology reverse engineer tumors to tailor cancer therapy to the individual patient.
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- June 18, 2013
Study of insulin-producing cells derived from skin of diabetes patients shows utility of iPS cells for study of human disease and as potential therapy.
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- May 23, 2013
Columbia Magazine reports on an NIH-funded study, led by Dr. Ronald Wapner, where thousands of women were provided microarray, a powerful genetic test, for prenatal testing.
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- May 20, 2013
New computational tool translates complex data into 2-dimensional images; may allow doctors to track cancer progression.
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