Dean Linda P. Fried announced an initiative called FORWARD to transform the Mailman School of Public Health into an antiracist, multicultural, and fully inclusive institution.
Kyle Sevel, who helped found the College of Dental Medicine's first LGBTQ+ organization, received a Dr. David Whiston Leadership Award from the American Dental Association Foundation.
New combination chemotherapies have improved survival for patients with pancreatic cancer, and oncologist Gulam Manji sees early signs that new treatments in trials may be even better.
“The entire country is out of control,” said Dr. Dara Kass, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York who had the virus herself.
Ancient parts of the brain may hold secrets that help explain the drive to eat and how eating may affect brain health. Sabrina Diano, the new Institute of Human Nutrition director, is investigating.
Theo Sandfort, a professor at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, analyzed the findings of the telephone survey, which was completed in late 2019.
Columbia researchers have identified a gene signature in localized prostate cancer that predicts the cancer’s odds of spreading and its response to a common treatment for advanced disease.
Dr. Carolina Zerrate, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia, said that while these are stressful times for all families, “Black and Latinx families have been hit by the virus harder.”
