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Columbia awards the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works.
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At-home tests can detect recent exposure to gluten, but can the tests improve the health of people with celiac disease? Columbia researchers are launching a clinical trial to find out.
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Lewis Silverman, the new director of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation, is working to minimize the aftereffects of treatment to ensure the highest quality cure possible.
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Variants of the ABCA7 gene accelerate neurodegeneration by reducing the amount of neuropeptide Y, a protein essential for maintaining brain synapses.
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In The Media
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ABC News LiveSeptember 11, 2024Editor's Note: Lorraine Frazier, interviewed here, is dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing. Dr. Frazier also appeared on NBC News Now.
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The New York TimesSeptember 11, 2024Determining an accurate latency period is difficult, according to Lyall A. Gorenstein, a thoracic surgeon and lung cancer expert at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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The New York TimesSeptember 11, 2024The study suggests that the Dobbs decision affected not just abortion access, but “decisions women are making about contraception as well,” said Xiao Xu, the study’s lead author.
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Mental Health
- August 14, 2024
A pilot program from the Department of Psychiatry for Columbia University medical plan participants offers a new approach to helping new parents and pregnant people access mental health care.
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- August 9, 2024
A model that examines the dynamics underlying suicide contagion following a celebrity death could help in developing a rapid response to prevent suicide.
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- June 21, 2024
In honor of Pride Month, the Columbia Gender & Sexuality Program offers a family-friendly guide to support LGBTQIA+ youth and caregivers and a list of events taking place across the city.
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Cancer
- September 6, 2024
Lewis Silverman, the new director of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation, is working to minimize the aftereffects of treatment to ensure the highest quality cure possible.
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- August 29, 2024
In a mouse model of breast cancer, mice fed a ketogenic diet experienced significantly more lung metastases compared to those on a control diet.
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- August 29, 2024
Columbia researcher Jasmine McDonald, who studies factors that affect the risk of developing breast cancer, discusses what is known about breastfeeding's protective influence on maternal health.
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Neuroscience
- September 16, 2024
Established two decades ago, the essential tremor brain bank at Columbia has been instrumental in revealing the source and biology of a common but understudied neurodegenerative disorder.
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- August 14, 2024
Recordings from thousands of neurons—and geometry—have revealed how a person’s brain abstractly represents acts of reasoning.
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- July 30, 2024
To make it to the Olympics, elite athletes spend countless hours preparing not only their bodies but their brains, as well.
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Heart Health
- August 28, 2024
Adding a measure of psychological health to a predictor of mortality from heart disease improved predictions, particularly among Black and female populations.
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- August 9, 2024
The study by Columbia researchers adds to emerging evidence that environmental metals are preventable risk factors of cardiovascular disease and mortality.
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- June 12, 2024
Thanks to a collaboration between Columbia and Cornell doctors, Yasin Samad is one of the first children in the United States to receive an innovative artificial heart valve.
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Public Health
- September 11, 2024
Columbia researchers found an increase in surgical sterilization among women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
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- September 11, 2024
The "StreetTalk" method—deployed by Mailman researchers to study energy insecurity—could change the way qualitative research is conducted and publicized while maintaining rigorous standards.
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- September 6, 2024
Researchers at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health found that Florida’s red flag gun law, enacted in 2018, was associated with an 11% reduction in firearm homicide rates from 2019 to 2021.
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Campus News
- September 18, 2024
Columbia awards the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works.
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- September 18, 2024
New faculty who recently joined VP&S include hospitalists, a doctor at the new ColumbiaDoctors Lincoln Center location, and an emergency medicine doctor also board-certified in sports medicine.
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- September 11, 2024
Columbia researchers found an increase in surgical sterilization among women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
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