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.
Stergios Zacharoulis, MD, an internationally known pediatric neuro-oncologist specializing in brain spine and neural malignancies of childhood, joined the Columbia faculty in 2018.
Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD, MPH, is spearheading multiple projects with the goal of translating epidemiologic and patient-oriented research findings into early-life obesity prevention approaches.
Columbia’s pediatric critical care team is offering genetic sequencing to children admitted to the ICU. The goal: to arrive at more accurate diagnoses of complicated disorders.