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Campus News • Community News

New Pilot Awards Available for Research Teams

The Irving Institute is funding two new awards for teams of basic and clinical assistant professors.

Cell Biology • Genetics • Uncategorized

Horwitz Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Bacterial Cell Structure

Columbia University will award the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Richard Losick, PhD, Joe Lutkenhaus, PhD, and Lucy Shapiro, PhD, for their collective work on the intricate, dynamic, three-dimensional organization of bacterial cells. Prior to their discoveries, the tiny bacterial cell was thought to be a “bag of enzymes” that held a jumbled mess of proteins and DNA within a “cell sap.”

Breast Cancer • Cancer • Genetics

Columbia Awarded One of First NCI “Provocative Questions” Grants

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) is one of 50 institutions selected nationwide from more than 700 applications for a “Provocative Questions” grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Cell Biology • Psychiatry

Potential Treatment for Cognitive Effects of Stress-Related Disorders, including PTSD

Dr. Andrew Marks & his team have identified a potential medical treatment for the cognitive effects of stress-related disorders, including PTSD.

Cell Biology • Psychiatry

How PTSD Impairs Learning and Memory

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Genetics • Research

DNA Repair: How Chromosomes Find Each Other

A study by Columbia researchers Judith Miné-Hattab, PhD, and Rodney Rothstein, PhD, found that after a double-strand break in DNA, the mobility of both the broken segment and other, unbroken, chromosomes is greatly increased.

Obstetrics/Gynecology • Research • Women's Health

Anthrax Toxin Receptor Necessary for Successful Pregnancy

Columbia researchers have found that a protein called Anthrax Toxin Receptor 2 (ANTXR2) is necessary for successful labor and birth.

Diabetes

Targeting Glucagon Pathway May Offer a New Approach to Treating Diabetes

Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose.

Diabetes • Research

Preserving Insulin Secretion in Type 1 Diabetes

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Global Health • Infectious Diseases • Public Health

Synthetic Agent Blocks Malaria

Methylene blue, an affordable synthetic dye, has been shown to be highly effective at blocking transmission of the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum from patients to mosquito hosts.