New details about the way this important molecule takes on tasks beyond sensing calcium could spur the develop of new drugs for breast cancer and other diseases.
New faculty who joined VP&S in February and March include the chair of the Department of Radiology and the vice chair for basic research in the Department of Pediatrics.
Immunologist Dusan Bogunovic is leading efforts to understand genetic variations and use that information to treat rare immunological disorders and prevent common infections in the broader population.
“What does it mean to have a reflection of starvation in a grandparent in an offspring?” said Bianca Jones Marlin, a neuroscientist in the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University.
“We may need to start clearing amyloid much earlier, and we think that can be done through the bloodstream,” Dr. Richard Mayeux, chair of neurology at Columbia University, said.
BeatProfiler, a new research tool invented by Columbia bioengineers with the help of AI, speeds and simplifies the analysis of engineered heart tissue in the laboratory.
