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.
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.
Editor's Note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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.
Editor's Note: Rita Charon is chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dean Lorraine Frazier visited leading medical institutions in Beijing to discuss expanding student exchange programs and equipping students to provide care in a globalized health care environment.
The center will organize and stimulate research on the human exposome—the cumulative measure of environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses.
