In his new role leading the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York, Andrea Califano will bring together scientists from several universities to engineer the immune system to detect and treat disease.
Two research teams at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have received grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help build a Human Cell Atlas.
Collaboration will investigate a system biology approach to identifying treatment options for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).
The new facility within the Systems Biology department will promote the design and implementation of new experimental methods for the study and engineering of biological systems.
Yufeng Shen, Peter Sims, and Chaolin Zhang have designed a new team-taught course that covers both the experimental and analytical basics of next-generation sequencing.