Columbia will award the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.
The funding will support ICAP's learning network, an initiative involving 21 countries in Africa, to improve the coverage and quality of HIV treatment.
The symposium will feature keynotes by Margaret Foti, chief executive at AACR, and Ned Sharpless, former director of the NCI, along with talks from leading members of the cancer center.
Scientists from around the world held a symposium to celebrate the 80th, 81st, and 82nd birthdays of Columbia Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank and recognize his contributions to structural biology.
Columbia researchers have found that a protein released by multiple myeloma cells prevents the immune system from attacking the cancer, a finding that could lead to better treatments.
