Microscopic changes just below the brain’s surface are most closely linked to cognitive deficits seen in amateur soccer players who frequently head the ball.

Over a thousand schoolkids learned about stem cells, brains, bacteria, and more at CUIMC’s annual Curious Minds Science Zone, an outdoor science extravaganza for local third- through sixth graders.

Uma M. Reddy, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is among a select group of leaders in medicine and health elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

New VP&S faculty include a medical education fellow with research interests in simulation-based learning and a scientist studying artificial intelligence methods for health and biomedicine.

Jordan Orange, MD, PhD, has joined Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons as the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics. Orange, who will also ...

In Brief For people with depression, gastrointestinal distress is a common additional burden, and a new study suggests that for some, the two conditions arise from the same glitch in neuron ...

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 will award the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.

CUMC scientists have created a 3-D printed implant that stimulates stem cells to regenerate the meniscus, cartilage that cushions and protects the knee.

Columbia neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer's in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease.

Based on Columbia research, an experimental drug for a rare type of ALS is being tested in a phase 3 clinical trial after a new study found that the drug lowered levels of a toxic protein.