Year in Review: 2015 Highlights in Video
These top video picks of 2015 showcase faculty research, student programs, and campus highlights at Columbia University Medical Center.
Can Your Birth Month Predict Disease Risk?
Researchers developed a computational algorithm to examine New York City medical databases and found 55 diseases that correlate with the season of birth.
Blocking Enzymes in Hair Follicles Promotes Hair Growth
Inhibiting a family of enzymes inside hair follicles that are suspended in a resting state restores hair growth.
Columbia Asylum Clinic
The Asylum Clinic, part of the Columbia Human Rights Initiative run by students at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, provides medical evaluations for asylum seekers in the United States.
Gene Leads to Nearsightedness When Kids Read
Vision researchers at CUMC discovered a gene that causes myopia, but only in people who spend a lot of time in childhood reading or doing other “nearwork.”
A Feel for Flight: How Studying Bat Touch Could Help Build Better Planes
The neuroscience of bat flight could help us design better planes.
Seven Myths About Measles
Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, debunks seven common myths about measles and vaccination.
Scientists Turn Tastes On and Off by Manipulating Brain Cells
Researchers demonstrated the ability to change the way something tastes by manipulating groups of cells in the mouse brain.
Columbia Nursing Tops Off New Building
Students, alumni, faculty, and other members of the Columbia community gathered to sign the last beam of a new building for the School of Nursing and watch as it was lifted into place to complete the steel structure.
Long-term Memories Are Maintained by Prion-like Proteins
Research from Eric Kandel’s lab uncovered further evidence of a system in the brain that persistently maintains memories for long periods of time.
Match Day 2015 at Columbia
Watch this 60-second video and relive the excitement of #Match2015 at P&S.
The Future of Cancer
View excerpts from a conversation about the future of cancer held at Columbia University to mark the PBS broadcast of “Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” a film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Columbia oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee.
See more videos in the CUMC Newsroom and on medical center YouTube channels:
Mailman: https://www.youtube.com/user/ColumbiaMailman
Nursing: https://www.youtube.com/user/ColumbiaNursing
Dental Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/user/CUDentalMedicine