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Sam Prince, who received a heart transplant at Columbia at age 8, combines a passion for the New York Giants with his mission to save more lives through organ donation.
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Columbia’s cell therapy lab, which creates customized cell therapies, is testing its first product, T cells trained to fight dangerous infections in transplant patients.
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Chronic liver disease is surging in the United States. No group is more affected than Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
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Now a thriving 19-year-old, the pediatric heart transplant patient offers hope to others.
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- July 18, 2022
Transplantation of animal organs into human bodies may become medical reality sooner than we think.
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- February 9, 2022
A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, Columbia University researchers have found.
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- July 29, 2021
A transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons gave a young man with cystic fibrosis new hope with a triple-organ transplant.
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- July 24, 2020
Heart transplants, donor hearts, and transplant waitlists all fell sharply at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Columbia University researchers have found.
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- July 13, 2020
The health of donated human lungs judged too poor for transplantation can be recovered using a cross-circulation technique designed by biomedical engineers at Columbia University.
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- August 30, 2019
Most patients who died or were removed from the kidney transplant waitlist before getting a transplant received multiple offers for a donor kidney.
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- June 28, 2019
Hematopoietic stem cells can survive extraordinary stress. Columbia scientists have learned how they escape death, which could lead to new treatments for blood cancers and diseases related to aging.
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- May 10, 2019
Columbia engineers and surgeons show that new salvage methods can recondition severely damaged lungs to meet transplantation criteria and could make more lungs available for patients.
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- April 12, 2019
Kidney swaps are spectacular, but Columbia surgeons also practice the art of matching kidneys to patients, which has helped them cut the wait time for a kidney transplant by more than half.
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- November 29, 2018
Columbia researchers have discovered that the human intestine has a reservoir of blood-forming stem cells and that the cells play a central role in the success of organ transplantation.
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