Medicine & Health

Organ-on-a-chip device inside a clear plastic dish, with two tubes connected to a small, light-red microfluidic chamber used to study how cancer spreads through blood flow to organs

Research

New Chip Mimics How Cancer Spreads

August 19, 2026

by Meeri Kim

Portrait photo of Professor Elisa Konofagou, a researcher, dressed in a black jacket over a dark blue shirt, looking into the camera in a well-lit hallway with white walls and a blue door.

Research

Doctors May Now See the Hidden Signs of Sudden Cardiac Death

August 17, 2026

by Camryn Hadley

Illustration of a pregnant person’s abdomen with a fetus inside the uterus, overlaid with heart and waveform-style monitoring graphics and geometric sensor icons, representing AI-powered maternal–fetal monitoring during labor.

Research

Columbia University to Lead ARPA-H-Funded Effort to Transform Childbirth Through AI-Powered Maternal–Fetal Monitoring

July 22, 2026

Hazy street in New York

Faculty & Staff

What to Know About New York City's Air Quality Emergency

July 17, 2026

by Grant Currin

Six adults stand shoulder to shoulder in an office-like room in front of wood shelving and a framed painting.

Research

New Gift Expands Brain Cancer Research to Greece

July 07, 2026

Elham Azizi

Faculty & Staff

Elham Azizi Receives 40 Under 40 in Cancer Award

June 02, 2026

by Devyn Forcina

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Faculty & Staff

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic wins the L’Oréal-UNESCO International Award for Women in Science

May 19, 2026

by Camryn Hadley

A woman wearing Columbia University graduation gown smiling for a photo

Students

BME Grad to Study Immunoengineering as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar

May 14, 2026

Illustration of a busy crowd in purple tones against an orange background. At left, a profile of a person’s head shows a brain with a glowing device/implant near the temple connected to an earpiece; above the crowd, a wavy signal line runs across the sky. On the right, a woman in a white coat speaks to a small group in front of a bright yellow circle, while others wear headphones or look at a phone.

Research

Brain-Controlled Hearing System Proves Itself in First Human Studies

May 11, 2026

Clark T. Hung and Nadeen O. Chahine

Research

Columbia Research Team Moves Closer to a "Living Knee" Implant

April 06, 2026

Immunofluorescence image of transverse heart sections from a healthy neonatal mouse (Left) or a neonatal mouse in which myocardial infarction was induced at postnatal day 1, examined 3 days after injury (Right)

Research

A New RNA Therapy Could Help the Heart Repair Itself

March 13, 2026

by Grant Currin

Elisa Konofagou and Stergios Zacharoulis

Research

NY1 Spotlights Focused Ultrasound for Pediatric Cancer Treatment

March 10, 2026