Our inaugural Columbia Children's Health Innovation and Learning Day showcased the depth and breadth of research conducted by Columbia physician-scientists to improve the care of children.
Sebastián Riquelme, PhD is a pioneer in the growing field of immunometabolism, investigating how the processes that turn food into energy impact the outcome of infectious diseases.
Pediatric cardiologist Kimara Targoff, MD studies zebrafish, a freshwater species that has the uncanny ability to create new heart cells to repair injuries.
Columbia’s chief of pediatric critical care and hospital medicine, Hülya Bayır, MD, is researching ways to protect brain tissue and prevent disability or death, after a child suffers a head injury.
Father-daughter team Drs. Natasha and Rudolph Leibel work in parallel at the forefront of science and medicine to improve the treatment of patients with diabetes and obesity.
Columbia’s researchers have opened a trial of a noninvasive, focused ultrasound approach to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling higher concentrations of an effective drug to enter the brain.
Columbia researchers are working to determine the prevalence of autoimmune diabetes with a monogenic cause and the factors that can identify those most likely to have it.
Pediatric researchers at Columbia are joining colleagues at 25 institutions across the country to understand more about long COVID and mitigate future impact.