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.
Internationally renowned physician-scientist Joshua Milner, MD has been named chief of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology in the Department of Pediatrics.
The Targoff Lab in Pediatrics is featured with the Zuckerman Institute’s announcement of SCAPE microscopy applications in collaboration with the Hillman Lab.
Columbia’s Nancy Green, MD is assessing risk of stroke and cognitive impairment through an NIH-funded research grant, “The Burden of Sickle Cell Disease on the Brains of Children in Uganda.”
Through new research studies Dr. Stergios Zacharoulis hopes to impact the currently dismal outlook for the 4,000 children in the US diagnosed each year with a brain or spinal cord tumor.
Pediatrician and neuroscientist Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD is researching the developmental origins of resilience. Her goal: to design interventions that prevent disease by increasing resilience.
Columbia has launched the Center for Children’s Digital Health Research. Participating researchers will use the most cutting edge tools to have a positive impact child health.
GI distress is a common problem for people with depression, and a new study by Pediatrics researcher Kara Gross Margolis, MD points to low serotonin levels.