Two early-career scientists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons—Minoree Kohwi, PhD, and Chao Lu, PhD—have been awarded prestigious 2022 Hirschl Trust Research Awards.
When Bisant Labib needed surgery to remove a large tumor growing in her spinal cord, all the doctors she consulted recommended the same neurosurgeon—Paul McCormick.
Columbia has helped launch New York City’s new Pandemic Response Institute, which will develop an equitable crisis response that doesn’t leave people behind.
Computer models have helped anticipate COVID’s peaks and troughs, but models have a “cone of uncertainty” and much about the future of the pandemic remains unknown.
Telemedicine as a way to deliver health care is here to stay. Columbia physicians are working together with members of the engineering and business schools to advance implementation of telemedicine.
What was learned by researchers during the pandemic has changed the mindset for scientists: “Why do we have to follow the old routine when we see a new paradigm working so well?”
