Precision Medicine: Why a New Approach is Needed
To Columbia systems biologist Andrea Califano, precision medicine is a way to make medical care more personalized and individualized. “We are starting to realize that perhaps the ‘one mold fits all’...
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Harold Varmus Outlines Goals for Precision Medicine in Cancer
Harold Varmus, MD’66, director of the National Cancer Institute, addressed faculty and students at Columbia University Medical Center. The concept of precision medicine is not new, said NCI director...
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Immunotherapy: New Hope for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer
In the late 1800s, a New York surgeon named William Coley noticed that some patients with cancer seemed to fare better if they developed an infection after undergoing surgery. Suspecting that the...
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The Future of Cancer Research: A Panel Discussion on March 24
Siddhartha Mukherjee and Ken Burns (Photo: Stephanie Berger) A special panel discussion on March 24 will focus on how new research is changing the landscape of cancer. The discussion will feature...
View ArticleA Public Health Perspective on Personalized Medicine
In the New England Journal of Medicine, two public health scholars write about the increasing focus nationally on precision medicine.
View ArticleDocTalks: Psychiatry and Precision Medicine
Clinicians face a huge challenge when it comes to understanding and treating brain disorders, particularly psychiatric illnesses, which are difficult to diagnose. For most disorders, accurate...
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CUMC Project Adds Patient DNA Data to Electronic Health Records
Image: Thinkstock/Gio_tto As part of a nationwide NIH research program, a group of CUMC researchers will begin incorporating genomic information into electronic health records of thousands of CUMC...
View ArticleGenome Study Finds Link Between Congenital Heart and Brain Disorders
NEW YORK, NY (December 9, 2015) — Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), NewYork-Presbyterian, the Pediatric Cardiac Genetics Consortium, and the Pediatric Heart Network have...
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Precision Medicine Shaping the Future of Cancer Research
Panelists discussing the future of cancer research (from left): Stephen Emerson, MD, PhD; Sid Mukherjee, MD, DPhil; Andrew Kung, MD, Phd; Cory Abate-Shen, PhD; William Nelson, MD, PhD; Gary Schwartz,...
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Precision Cancer Medicine for Pediatric Patients
At Columbia University Medical Center, all pediatric cancer patients now have access to genome sequencing of their tumors. Using technologies that have until now been largely restricted to research use...
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Epilepsy Expert Joins Columbia’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Wayne Frankel (right). Photo by Marie Chao, courtesy of the Jackson Laboratory. In the early 1990s, a prominent geneticist quipped that “whoever described diabetes as a geneticist’s nightmare had...
View ArticleToo Much of a Good Thing: Traits That Helped Us Survive Hurt Us Now
College of Physicians & Surgeons Dean Lee Goldman discusses his new book, which examines the role DNA plays in attempting to treat diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
View ArticleIn New Book, Siddhartha Mukherjee Details the History of the Gene
Following his Pulitzer Prize-winning book about cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” Columbia oncologist and scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil, turned his attention to the impact of genes on...
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Four NYC Medical Centers Receive New NIH Precision Medicine Grant
(Credit: Thinkstock) NEW YORK, NY, July 8, 2016—Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian and NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, have...
View ArticleColumbia to Provide Data & Research Support for NIH PMI Cohort Program
NEW YORK, NY, July 20, 2016—Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) will play an important role in the launch and operations of the Data and Research Support Center for the NIH’s Precision Medicine...
View ArticleUsing Precision Medicine to Cure a Toddler’s Mysterious Ailment
Cara Greene, a toddler from North Carolina, began losing strength in her arms and limbs at the age of 15 months. In a matter of months, she lost her ability to walk, feed herself, and pick up even the...
View ArticleExpanded Prenatal Genetic Testing May Increase Carrier Detection
Expanded prenatal genetic testing may increase the detection of carriers for a variety of potentially serious conditions.
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Gene Mutations May Increase Adverse Event Risk in Older Adults Taking...
Credit: Thinkstock NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 2, 2016)— Gene mutations that affect drug metabolism may explain higher hospitalization rates for some older adults taking multiple medications, according to...
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New Precision Medicine Tool Helps Optimize Cancer Treatment
Source: Getty Images NEW YORK NY (Dec. 22, 2016)—Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created a computational tool that can rapidly predict which genes are implicated in an...
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Common Epilepsies Share Genetic Overlap with Rare Types
Source: Getty Images NEW YORK NY (Jan. 10, 2017)—An international study led by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian has found that several genes previously implicated only...
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