| 12/04/2009 | Third Annual Irving Institute TRANSFORM Research Day TRANSFORM Scholars and Trainees will present their research proposals, projects and findings. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to stop by at their convenience during the event. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at nu2113@columbia.edu Date: Friday, December 4 Time: 1:00 – 3:00p Location: Riverview Lounge, Hammer Health Sciences Center, Floor 4, 701 West 168 Street, NYC 10032 |
| 11/24/2009 | RASCAL Training Seminar. Designed for new and/or seasoned users who wish to gain more facility maneuvering through the “Proposal Tracking” functions within RASCAL. For a real ‘hands-on’ experience, please bring your laptop; Hess Commons is equipped with wireless capability. Please RSVP at her2109@mail.cumc.columbia.edu Date: Tuesday, November 24 Time: 3:00 – 4:30p Location: Hess Commons, The Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168 Street, Entrance Level (Floor 10) |
| 11/16/2009 | The Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource announces the seven recipients of the 2009 CaMPR Phase I Awards. |
| 11/13/2009 | School of Social Work and Teacher’s College/Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH) Open House Time: 1:00 – 3:00p Location: 390 Fort Washington Avenue (between 177 & 178 Streets) Ground Floor, NYC 10033 |
| 11/06/2009 | Dental and Nursing School/Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH) Open House Time: 1:00 – 3:00p Location: 390 Fort Washington Avenue (between 177 & 178 Streets) Ground Floor, NYC 10033 |
| 10/23/2009 | NIH RC4 Grant (RFA-OD-09-010) Seminar Opportunities for collaboration on the “Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4)” grant will be discussed. Time: 3:00 – 4:00p Location: 390 Fort Washington Avenue (between 177 & 178 Streets) Ground Floor, NYC 10033 RSVP to Ms. Alejandra Aguirre, Program Coordinator, ana2104@columbia.edu |
| 10/23/2009 | Mailman School of Public Health/Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH) Open House Time: 1:00 – 3:00p Location: 390 Fort Washington Avenue (between 177 & 178 Streets) Ground Floor, NYC 10033 |
| 10/02/2009 | ACRP Symposium: Clinical Research 2010 and Beyond Date: Friday, October 2 Time: 7:30a - 5:00p Location: Alumni Auditorium, 630 West 168 Street, NYC 10032 Registration is required for this event. |
| October 2009 | Anissa Abi-Dargham, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Radiology and DNMR faculty member, received a five-year $618,680 renewal of funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "Cortical and Striatal Dopamine Dysfunction in Addiction and Schizophrenia."
Gudrun Aspelund, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Surgery and 2009 MS/POR graduate, was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and inducted into the American Pediatric Surgical Association. Karina W. Davidson, PhD, Associate Director of the Irving Institute, TRANSFORM Co-Director and Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, has been named Director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health. Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and KL2 awardee,received $764,339 over five years to study the effects of antioxidant supplementation during breast cancer adjuvant therapy. Daniel Kass, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and 2008 CTO/CTSA Pilot Award recipient, received an 18-month $75,000 award from the ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigators Award Program to continue support of his research, "Targeting the MetAP2 Pathway in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension." Elaine Larson, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research, Professor of Epidemiology, and RKSER key member received a five-year $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in collaboration with Franklin D. Lowy, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology for the study "Risk Factors for Spread of Staphylococcus aureus in Prisons." Nancy Reame, PhD, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor, Director of the PhD program in Nursing, and PCSR Director, received a three-year $750,000 Advanced Education Nursing Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support the program development and implementation of a new PhD program for TRANSIT: Training Nurse Scientists in Interdisciplinary and Translational Research in the Underserved. Beverley J. Sheares, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and 2001 MS/POR graduate received a five-year $3.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the study, "Reducing Sleep Disparities in Urban, Minority School-Aged Children." |
| September 2009 | The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research received four American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants, totaling $1.8 million, for the following projects: “Targets and Barriers for Hydroxyurea (HU) Therapy in Sickle Hemoglobinopathies,” is a six-site collaboration between five NYCON institutions, (Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, University of Rochester, and Yale University) and University of California, San Francisco. Henry N. Ginsberg, MD (PI) and Nancy Green, MD (Co-PI) will lead this study focused on identifying novel indication for HU, pharmaco-genomic prediction of response, risks of and barriers to its use. “Supplemental Funding for the Organic Synthesis Collaborative Center,” lead by Henry N. Ginsberg, MD (PI) and Donald W. Landry (Co-PI), aims to advance translational research by bolstering the Organic Synthesis Collaborative Center’s (OSCC) capacity to provide organic chemistry capabilities to biologically-oriented investigators and continue the successful acceleration of “bench-to-bedside” breakthroughs at CUMC. “Amplifying the Pace of Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) at Columbia University” is a pilot project mechanism directed by Henry N. Ginsberg, MD (PI) and Nancy Reame, PhD (Co-PI), that will provide additional resources needed to expand the novel Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) award program. “Advancing Institutional Efforts to Support Research Mentoring for Clinical/Translational Scientists” lead by Henry N. Ginsberg, MD (PI) and Harold A. Pincus, MD (Co-PI), aims to improve research workforce development and dissemination by providing institutional and program leaders with the information, guidance, and tools they need to evaluate and improve their research mentorship efforts. The activities described above are being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. More information about Recovery Act/NIH/NCRR grants can be found at www.ncrr.nih.gov/recovery. A listing of all Recovery Act/NIH grants can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/. Petra Kaufmann, MD, MSc, a 2002 MS/POR graduate, a past K12 scholar (2003-06), and recipient of both the CaMPR Phase I and II awards (2007-08), has been named director of the Office of Clinical Research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). An expert in the design and management of clinical trials for neuromuscular disorders, including spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and mitochondrial diseases, Dr. Kaufmann will increase the effectiveness of clinical studies by addressing issues such as optimal trial design, ethical safe conduct of trials, and challenges in patient enrollment. |
| 8/25/2009 | Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, CLS, Director of the Bionutrition Research Core, Associate Research Scientist, and Lecturer in Dentistry encourages overall dietary moderation in Newsday in response to the American Heart Association’s recommendation to drastically reduce daily sugar intake. |
| 7/28/2009 |
Call for Applications - 2009 Irving Institute CaMPR Phase I Awards |
| 7/14/2009 | The northeast CTSA regional consortium, NYCON, welcomes two new CTSA recipients, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine as members. This brings NYCON membership to 8 institutions. |
| July 2009 | The 2009 Irving Scholars, Adam Brickman, PhD, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, Katherine Crew, MD, MS, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Thomas Nickolas, MD, MS, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Adam Ratner, MD, MPH, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, and Benjamin Spencer, MD, MPH, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Urology, will each receive a three-year career development award. Petra Kaufmann, MD, MSc, a 2002 MS/POR graduate, a past K12 scholar from 2003-06, recipient of both the CaMPR Phase I and II awards during 2007-08, and current Irving Fellow has been promoted to Associate Professor of Neurology. |
| June 2009 | Melissa Begg, ScD, Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs, and Co-Director of the Irving Institute has been awarded $412,000 over five years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training Diversity Program to provide research and educational opportunities in biostatistics, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary disease for underrepresented populations. |
| 6/25/2009 | The Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource announces the two recipients of the 2009 CaMPR Phase II Awards. |
| June 2009 |
Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, CLS, Director of the
Bionutrition Research Core, Associate Research Scientist, and Lecturer in Dentistry has recently been awarded Fellow status with the National Lipid
Association (NLA), a nonprofit, multidisciplinary medical society with over 3,500 members dedicated to preventing cardiovascular disease and reducing illness
and deaths stemming from cholesterol and triglyceride disorders.
Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, a recipient of a KL2 award, received coverage in several publications including the United Press International and the Guardian for the study, "Prevalence and predictors of antioxidant supplement use during breast cancer treatment: The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project." |
| 6/22/2009 | The Irving Institute announces the grand opening of the Columbia Community Partnership for Health.
Press coverage of the CCPH Grand Opening: Official Press Release, The Record, Manhattan Times, El Nuevo Diario, almomento.net |
| 6/04/2009 |
Second Annual Irving Institute CER Health Information Day |
May 2009 |
Burton Edelstein , DDS, MPH, Professor of Clinical Dental Medicine, Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences section, Professor of Clinical Health Policy & Management, and a 2008 Phase I CaMPR award recipient, has been honored with an outstanding service award by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Chunhua Weng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, a 2008 Phase I CaMPR award recipient, has been awarded a three-year $1 million research project (R01) grant by the National Library of Medicine to improve the use of electronic health records in the clinical trials eligibility screening process $25,000 Columbia University Professional Schools Diversity Research Fellowship, part of a $2 million initiative from Columbia President Lee Bollinger, to support her research proposal "Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Research Eligibility Criteria and Clinical Data." Gudrun Aspelund, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, a 2009 MS/POR graduate, who specializes in neonatal, gastrointestinal and minimal access surgery for pediatric patients, has been appointed to membership in the American Pediatric Surgical Association. |
5/15/2009 |
The Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource announces the eight recipients of the 2009 CTSA/CTO Pilot Awards. |
April 2009 |
Howard Andrews, PhD, Director of our Data Management Group, and Julian Mackay-Wiggan , MD, MS, a 2004 graduate of the MS/POR program, are part of a team led by Harvey Arbesman, MD, MS, recently awarded $50,000 from the Prize4Life ALS Biomarker Challenge. Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Co-Director, Community Engagement Resource is featured in the April 2009 edition of The Record, Columbia University's newspaper. |
March 2009 |
Wahida Karmally, DrPH, Director of the Bionutrition Research Core, Associate Research Scientist, and special lecturer in the College of Dental Medicine, was one of several American Dietetic Association representatives to preside over the opening of NASDAQ on March 12. Burton Edelstein, DDS, MPH, Professor of Clinical Dental Medicine, Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences section, and Professor of Clinical Health Policy & Management, a 2008 Phase I CaMPR award recipient, chaired the most recent semi-annual meeting of the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce, which is focused on making tangible improvements in child oral health worldwide by 2025. David Paik, MD, Associate Research Scientist in Ophthalmology and Lecturer in Medicine, a 2008 CTO/CTSA Pilot Award recipient, has received a two-year $413,000 exploratory and development grant from the National Eye Institute to develop a simple treatment for diseases of corneal destabilization using breakthrough technology that does not involve ultraviolet light exposure. |
3/13/2009 |
Second Annual Irving Institute TRANSFORM Research Day |
2/20/2009 |
Genetics, Stem Cell Biology and Stem Cell Transplantation in Epidermolysis Bullosa Symposium |
January 2009 |
The CTSA e-newsletter features an article profiling the inaugural NYCON - New York/Connecticut Regional CTSA Consortium Symposium, "New York and Connecticut CTSA Sites Converge". |
1/20/2009 |
6th Annual Leahey Lecture: Translational Therapeutics of the Arachidonic Acid Cascade |
1/15/2009 |
Irving Institute CTSA Renewal Retreat | 12/24/2008 |
Call for Applications - 2009 Irving Institute/Clinical Trials Office Pilot Awards |
12/09/2008 |
Call for Applications - CTSA Funding for Pilot Projects in PET or MRI Imaging |
December 2008 |
Julian A. Abrams, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Digestive and Liver Diseases, a 2007 graduate of the MS/POR Program, received a five-year $677,000 career development award from NCI to examine smoking as a risk factor for lung metastasis and alcohol as a protective mechanism against liver metastasis in esophageal cancer. Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Cardiology and Radiology, a KL2 Scholar, received the 2008 Katz Young Investigator Prize in Cardiology Research for his research on minimizing the risk of cancer associated radiation exposure from computed tomography angiogram (CTA), a new, non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of levels of calcium and fatty deposits in the coronary arteries. Petra Kaufmann, MS, Assistant Professor of Neurology, a former KL2 Scholar, MS/POR graduate, and CaMPR recipient, received a $40,000 supplement by NINDS to support her research of high-dose coenzyme Q10 as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of ALS. |
November 2008 |
The Fall 2008 edition of the P&S Journal features an article profiling the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. "CTSA: A Revolution in Clinical Research - Spurring the Change: The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research" Melissa Begg, ScD, Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, has been named Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs at the Mailman School of Public Health. In this role, Dr. Begg will lead and facilitate the development of interdisciplinary educational and research programs and partnerships with other CUMC schools. Karina Davidson, PhD, who has been appointed to a three-year term as Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Medicine and Psychiatry), has also been elected president of the American Psychology Association's Division of Health Psychology for the 2008-2009 academic year. She is the recipient of a five-year $12.4 million grant from the NHLBI to study why depression is associated with poorer outcomes and mortality in patients with heart disease. NYCON - New York/Connecticut Regional CTSA Consortium Symposium
The Principal Investigators from each of the 6 institutions pictured from left to right: Dr. Harry Shamoon (Einstein), |
10/24/2008 |
The Nursing Shortage and the Crisis in Health Care airing tonight, Friday, October 24th, from 8:00 - 9:30 PM on Emmy Award-winning news magazine Now on PBS. Exploring the impact of the nursing shortage on patients, the program will examine the root causes of the crisis, and innovative efforts to reverse the trend. Supported in part by a grant from the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund and the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence. For local viewing times, check the TV schedule at PBS website. |
October 2008 |
Thomas Nickolas, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Nephrology, CTSA TRANSFORM KL2 Scholar from 2007-2008, and a 2004 graduate of the MS/POR program, has received a five-year $821,000 award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to use advanced imaging techniques to assess bone quality and strength in people across all stages of chronic kidney disease. Internal Advisory Committee Meeting |
September 2008 |
Julian A. Abrams, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Digestive and Liver Diseases, a 2007 graduate of the MS/POR Program, has been awarded a new 5-year NIH/NCI Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral, and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07) for his continued research on .Risk Factors for Site-Specific Metastasis in Esophageal Cancer". David J. Lederer, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Pulmonology, a former CTSA K12 award recipient and a 2007 graduate of the MS/PORprogram, has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar, which includes a $300,000 award to support his ongoing studies of ethnic and racial differences in the health outcomes of patients with pulmonary fibrosis of unknown origin. The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is the featured institution on the CTSA website for the month of September 2008. |
August 2008 |
Thomas Nickolas, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Nephrology, CTSA TRANSFORM KL2 Scholar from 2007-2008, and a 2004 graduate of the MS/POR track, has received a career development award (K23 DK080139) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study bone quality and mechanical competence in chronic kidney disease. |
July 2008 |
Henry N. Ginsberg, MD, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine-Preventative Medicine & Nutrition, and Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, has been awarded a four-year, $1.6 million renewal of funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for continuing studies of how fatty acids regulate liver lipoprotein production, with potential public health implications for the treatment of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes in particular. Allegra Broft, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and a CTSA TRANSFORM KL2 Scholar from 2007-2008, has received a career development award (K23 MH082097) from the National Institute of Mental Health to test the hypothesis that eating disorders and substance abuse share a common neurobiological link. Dr. Broft will use neuroimaging techniques to translate PET studies of dopamine systems in addiction to the study of bulimia nervosa. |
April 2008 |
David J. Lederer, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, a graduate of our MS/POR program, and a former CTSA KL2 awardee, has been awarded $540,000 over four years by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, with an emphasis on prospectively examining factors that impact survival times of study participants. |
March 2008 |
The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence announced Columbia's School of Nursing to receive one of the first four grants in its $2.5 million Jonas Nursing Scholars initiative designed to address the nation's accelerating shortage of nursing faculty, support educational development of new nursing faculty, and stimulate models for joint faculty appointments between schools of nursing and clinical affiliates. These grants will fund two doctoral students within Columbia's School of Nursing and the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Irving Institute Fellow, Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, received a two-year, $419,000 exploratory and development grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to investigate a novel and non-invasive method of detecting and removing breast tumors. Roger D. Vaughan, DrPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Biostatistics, and Irving Institute Design & Biostatistics resource leader, teams up with other notable collaborators. |
3/19/2008 |
Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy Seminar: Teaching the Quantitative Methods in the Health Sciences |
3/12/2008 |
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinical Research - Challenges and Opportunities |
2/27/2008 |
First Annual CTSA Scholars Research Day |
January 2008 |
Jose A. Luchsinger, MD, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine (P&S) and Epidemiology (Mailman), has received a one-year, $100,000 research grant from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation for pilot testing of the diabetes drug Metformin as a preventive measure against cognitive decline. The foundation was established to expand programs initiated by the Institute for the Study of Aging, a foundation started by the family of cosmetics entrepreneur Estee Lauder. Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, Instructor in Clinical Medicine-Nephrology, and one of our MS/POR scholars (Class of 2008), is one of only two recipients of the 2007 Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation. The American Philosophical Society awards a limited number of Daland Fellowships for patient-oriented research in several branches of clinical medicine, including internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery. Fellowships are designed for qualified persons who have held an MD or MD/PhD degree for fewer than eight years. Fellows receive $100,000 in funds over two years to facilitate investigation. Dr. Kiryluk's funded research project aims to identify genes responsible for vesicoureteral reflux in children. |
01/15/2008 |
Barry S. Coller, M.D., will present the
Fifth Annual Leahey Lecture
honoring Michael Leahey and Dr. Edward Leahey, Jr. |
November 2007 |
The American Medical Association has presented Paul Appelbaum, MD, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law and director, division of psychiatry, law and ethics, with the Isaac Hays, MD, and John Bell, MD, Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism. A director of the Irving Institute's Regulatory and Ethics Resource, Dr. Appelbaum received his award at the AMA's semi-annual policymaking meeting in November. Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, Director of Nutrition, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer (College of Dental Medicine) was elected to the American Diabetes Association's national board of directors. |
October 2007 |
Ruth L. Fischbach, PhD, MPE, Professor of Bioethics (in Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences), was selected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for contributions to the field of medical ethics, including neuroethics, stem cell research, and advances in assisted reproductive technology. One of the two 2007 Katz Prizes in Cardiovascular Research was awarded to Thomas G. Diacovo, MD, a promising young cardiovascular researcher who is studying the biological mechanisms involved in blood clot formation that can lead to heart attack and stroke. Dr. Diacovo serves as one of the Irving Institute Fellows, a group of upcoming yet accomplished investigators who comprise the DNMR (Development of Novel Methodologies) Key Resource of the CTSA. |
10/12/2007 |
Irving Institute Retreat (by invitation only) |
09/18/2007 |
Fall 2007 Open House |
05/21/2007 |
Pilot Award for Collaborative Clinical and Translational Research |
04/03/2007 |
First CTSA External Advisory Board Meeting |
03/27/2007 |
Workshop on Informed Consent |
03/15/2007 |
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03/15/2007 |
Second In-house Retreat |
02/27/2007 |
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03/02/2007 |
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01/10/2007 |
First In-house Retreat |
12/07/2006 |
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