CUIMC has honored five employees with 2025 Baton Awards that recognize team players who contribute to the overall success of the medical center.

Columbia researchers found that iron-deficient mice with influenza were unable to produce a key immune protein in the lungs that helps fight infections, even when iron levels returned to normal.

A type of ultraviolet light called far-UVC—which is safe to use around people—kills more than 99.9% of airborne coronaviruses, a new study at Columbia has found.

A new study of deaths in people with schizophrenia shows that more needs to be done to improve the physical health of adults with schizophrenia.

Each autumn, fourth-year medical students at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) embark on a ritual that is equal parts life-changing and career-defining—the residency interview ...

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 ...

A study of nearly 400 pregnant women is among the first to show that socioeconomic status and household crowding increase the risk of getting COVID-19.

As a graduate student, Sternberg worked with Doudna to develop one of the earliest CRISPR-based tools. Since joining Columbia in 2018, Sternberg has broadened his search, looking for additional ...

Columbia University today announced the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University. The center will catalyze the ...

Surgical sterilization rates among women increased in the United States after a 2022 Supreme Court ruling (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health) overturned the constitutional right to abortion, found ...

Columbia researchers have identified brain injuries that may underlie hidden consciousness, a puzzling phenomenon in which brain-injured patients are unable to respond to simple commands, making them ...

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 ...