Pediatrics Department chair Jordan Orange, MD, PhD was recently awarded prestigiousa MERIT (Method To Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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.
Columbia researchers are exploring ways to repurpose drugs approved by the FDA for other conditions and existing experimental therapies in difficult-to-treat pediatric cancers.
Columbia's Dr. Prakash Satwani is researching ways to reduce immediate and late-stage complications in bone marrow transplantation for children with leukemia/lymphoma.
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.