CUIMC Replace is a weekly e-newsletter that includes medical middle information and the accomplishments of our college, employees, and trainees. Please ship your information, honors, and awards to [email protected]. Grants are supplied by the Sponsored Initiatives Administration workplace.

NEWS

You are Invited: CUIMC Ice Cream Social
Be a part of CUIMC colleagues for a free frozen fruit or ice cream bar and reside jazz on Tuesday, July 18, from midday to 2 p.m. in Haven Plaza. In the course of the occasion, cease by the Velocity tent to study extra about Columbia’s Experience to Finish Most cancers. Study extra.

VP&S Afternoon of Science Collection Kicks Off
The primary Afternoons of Science at VP&S gave the Division of Genetics & Growth and the Institute for Most cancers Genetics the chance to share their analysis and ideas concerning the future. The 2 occasions, a part of a year-long scientific prioritization course of for VP&S, featured partaking question-and-answer classes following every particular person presentation. Learn extra.

40 Years of Fertility Remedy at Columbia: Then and Now
In its 40-year historical past, Columbia College’s fertility middle has pioneered many firsts within the area of fertility remedy, beginning with serving to the primary lady in New York Metropolis over age 40 have a child by way of IVF. Study extra concerning the middle’s improvements and firsts.

Grant Will Help Columbia Dental’s Neighborhood Affected person Care
The Faculty of Dental Drugs will use a three-year grant from the Delta Dental Neighborhood Care Basis to broaden companies and entry to look after underserved sufferers in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. The grant will allow CDM to fill in gaps in eligible companies that, even with the considerably lowered charges supplied within the pupil clinics, sufferers might not be capable to afford. Learn extra.

Columbia Analysis Explores Hyperlink Between Coronary heart Failure and Cognitive Decline
Coronary heart failure might result in cognitive decline by making a tiny calcium leak contained in the mind’s neurons, in accordance with a examine led by Andrew R. Marks, MD, chair of the Division of Physiology & Mobile Biophysics at VP&S. The discovering may open the door to new therapies for the situation, referred to as cardiogenic dementia. Learn extra.

EVENTS

Movie Works Alfresco at Haven Plaza: Inside Out
July 14, 7 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Avenue
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Situational Consciousness Coaching from Columbia Public Security
July 17, 4 p.m., on-line
Register right here.

ColumbiaDoctors Outreach With Nurse Practitioner Group and Major Care
July 18, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Avenue
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Social Media and Children: Columbia Specialists Talk about What’s “Within the Information”
July 18, 6 p.m., on-line
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TraineeHub Grantsmanship Collection: The Writing and Makes use of of Particular Goals
July 19, 4 p.m., on-line
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ColumbiaDoctors Outreach With Dentistry and the Hypertension Heart
July 25, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Avenue
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Request for Nominations: Mentor of the Yr Award
Aug. 3, on-line
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GRANTS

COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE

James High quality, DMD: $300,000 over two years from Zimmer Biomet for “2021-23 Fellowship.”

MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Yuanjia Wang, PhD, Biostatistics: $2,490,460 over 4 years from the Nationwide Institute of Neurological Problems and Stroke for “Statistical Strategies for Integrating Blended-type Biomarkers and Phenotypes in Neurodegenerative Illness Modeling.”

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Hasan Abaci, PhD, Dermatology: $503,973 over three years from the Nationwide Science Basis for “Restoring the Mechanosensation in Engineered Pores and skin utilizing Controllable Mobile and Extracellular Cues.”

Jonathan Barasch, MD, Drugs: $893,763 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Illnesses for “New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Coaching in Kidney, Urological and Hematological Analysis (NYC Practice KUHR).”

Constantinos Broustas, PhD, and Helen Turner, PhD, Heart for Radiological Analysis: $2,600,506 over 5 years from the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses for “Growth of a Novel Therapeutic for Mitigating Radiation-Induced Microbiome Dysbiosis and Acute Gastrointestinal Syndrome.”

Lawrence Kegeles, MD, Psychiatry: $1,836,281 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being for “A Multimodal Imaging Examine of Dopamine in Early Psychosis.”

Vilas Menon, PhD, Neurology: $1,146,737 over 4 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute on Growing older for “Spatial dysregulation of the lipidome in Alzheimer’s illness human and mouse mind.”

Catherine Spina, MD, PhD, Drugs: $2,635,968 over three years from Johnson & Johnson Innovation, LLC for “Interrogation of the Adenosine Signaling Axis in Major Human Non-Small Cell Lung Most cancers (NSCLC) Tumors.”

HONORS

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER

Noemie Elhadad, PhD, VP&S Biomedical Informatics; Sarah Rossetti, PhD, VP&S Biomedical Informatics; and Max Topaz, PhD, Faculty of Nursing, have been elected fellows within the Worldwide Academy of Well being Sciences Informatics.

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS

Yelena Akelina, DVM, Orthopedic Surgical procedure, acquired the Solar Lee Award on the sixteenth Congress of the Worldwide Society of Experimental Microsurgery.

SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT

IN THE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

CBS New York
Buffalo Payments security Damar Hamlin takes half in CPR coaching session at Yankee Stadium
Jul 6, 2023 – Dr. Sachin Agarwal, with Columbia Presbyterian Medical Heart, led the CPR coaching session. He stated it is about rather more than simply chest compressions. “I feel discovering braveness and kind of like your values to maneuver ahead and take into consideration saving a life at the moment. God has given you a chance to do one thing, the reward of life. So simply dive in,” Agarwal stated.

USA TODAY
You have heard of Ozempic, however do you perceive the way it works?
Jul 6, 2023 – Dr. Judy Korner, an endocrinologist and the founder and director of the Metabolic and Weight Management Heart at Columbia College, says that Ozempic mimics the hormone GLP-1, which helps the pancreas launch insulin. “GLP-1 goes to the pancreas, and helps the pancreas make insulin – however solely when the physique wants insulin. So when glucose ranges rise, the physique wants extra insulin, and GLP-1 or Ozempic (its mimicker) helps the pancreas launch insulin,” Korner explains.

Science
Uncommon hyperlink between coronavirus vaccines and Lengthy Covid–like sickness begins to achieve acceptance
Jul 3, 2023 – Small fiber neurons even have the ACE2 receptor on their floor, so in principle rogue antibodies may contribute to neuropathy. However Matthew Schelke, a neurologist at Columbia College who has handled small fiber neuropathy in each Lengthy Covid and postvaccine sufferers, says pinning down a connection gained’t be straightforward. Even when uncommon antibodies flip up in somebody’s blood, “it’s extraordinarily troublesome to know if any of those are pathogenic or if they’re simply bystanders,” he says. Different immune system elements that gasoline irritation may additionally hurt nerves, he notes.

Postvaccination sickness is “a protracted, relentless illness,” says Lawrence Purpura, an infectious illness specialist at Columbia College who can be Subaiya’s accomplice—and who treats each Lengthy Covid sufferers and people with continual signs after vaccination.