New faculty who joined VP&S in April and June include an emergency medicine doctor and a radiologist who has helped translate state-of-the-art imaging techniques.
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.
New faculty who joined VP&S in recent months include a specialist in managing infections in immunocompromised patients and a researcher of precision cellular immunotherapies for autoimmunity.
A chair has been named for the new Department of Emergency Medicine in the College of Physicians & Surgeons. Angela Mills, MD, also will be director of emergency services for the Columbia campus of NewYork-Presbyterian.
Columbia is helping to enroll 1 million Americans in “All of Us,” a large-scale effort to accelerate the medical research that will lead to individualized health care.
Two research teams at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have received grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help build a Human Cell Atlas.
Columbia researchers have identified cells that give rise to Barrett’s esophagus, a precursor to esophageal cancer, the fastest-growing cancer in the United States.