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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.
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Longtime faculty member Lorraine Symington has been elected to the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.
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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.
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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.
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Latest News
- April 29, 2014
Theoretical neuroscientist Larry Abbott, the William Bloor Professor of Neuroscience, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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- April 28, 2014
Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation and CUMC have created the first disease-specific embryonic stem cell line using nuclear transfer technology.
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- April 24, 2014
Households serve as a major source of new MRSA infections, according to a study by microbiologists at Columbia University Medical Center.
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- April 24, 2014
Randy Bruno, Alla Grishok, and three visiting international scientists have been named 2014 Schaefer Research Scholars.
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- April 23, 2014
Dr. Janet Sparrow and colleagues are pioneering a new way to use the retina's natural fluorescence to track and characterize the progression of eye diseases.
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- April 18, 2014
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty will serve, support, and celebrate careers of women in science and medicine at P&S.
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- April 17, 2014
New findings that overturn a theory about the brain and the immune system suggest Parkinson's may be an autoimmune disease.
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- April 16, 2014
Psychiatrist Mark Olfson suggests suicide prevention efforts should be focused on specific periods of high risk.
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- April 14, 2014
People who are hospitalized unexpectedly in the ICU are more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric illness after discharge.
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- April 6, 2014
Columbia scientists reveal how touch cells just beneath the skin's surface create our ability to feel fine details and texture.
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