Cell therapy pioneer has been awarded a prize for revolutionizing cancer treatment with personalized immunotherapy developed from a patient’s own cells.

A study of mice found that dietary sugar alters the gut microbiome, setting off a chain of events that leads to metabolic disease, pre-diabetes, and weight gain.

Among the many strengths of our community is our dedication to continual learning and growth, which propel us to reach out, partner, and explore outside of our disciplines and usual arenas.

More information David Brenner is a professor of radiation biophysics and director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He and ...

Allan Schwartz, MD will step down from his role as chief of the Division of Cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center within a year.

Sankar Ghosh, PhD, the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology, will be stepping down from his role as chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

New VP&S faculty include a new chief of digestive & liver diseases, a physiatrist who researches complex regional pain syndrome, and a neonatologist working to improve seizure detection in newborns.

Due to our new editing access policy, new editing access to CUIMC Distribution sites is now limited. In line with these changes, regularly scheduled live trainings have been discontinued. Once ...

NEW YORK, NY (August 21, 2014) — Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain “pruning” process during ...

Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s ...

Columbia neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer's in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration received more than 15,000 reports of health problems linked to dietary supplements between 2004 and 2013, including 339 deaths and nearly 4,000 hospitalizations.