CU-DLDRC

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC member, Yiping Han, PhD who was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a prestigious honor awarded to distinguished scientists and innovators!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Associate Director Timothy Wang, MD, the recipient of the 2025 HICCC Distinguished Award!

Congratulations to Heena Agarwal, PhD, member of the Ozcan Lab for her 3-year fellowship award from the American Diabetes Association for her project titled "Role of Rap1a driven Galectin-1 pathway in liver disease and glucose homeostasis"

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC member, Lale Ozcan, MD on her promotion to Associate Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) with Tenure!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Member, Dr Harris Wang, PhD and his team for their Science Paper titled "Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases"

Congratulations to our CU-DLDRC 2025 Pilot & Feasibility Awardees! Dominique Bailey, MD, Jonathan Steinman, MD, PhD, Matthew Yousefzadeh, PhD and Sara Zaccara, PhD!

A warm welcome to Dr. Braden Kuo, MD, MSc who is the new Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. Dr Kuo joins Columbia from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he has had a distinguished career in Gastroenterology. Welcome Dr Kuo!

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Miller, MD (from Dr. Kelley Yan's group) for winning the Richard J. Grand and John B. Watkins Prize at the 2025 NASPGHAN Annual National Meeting! Great news!

Congratulations to Marie Hasselluhn, PhD, member of the Olive Lab, for being awarded the NIH K99 award for her project on understanding paracrine interactions induced by morphogens in pancreatic disorders!

Congratulations to DLDRC Organoid Core Director Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD and DLDRC BioImaging Core Director Kenneth Olive, PhD on their promotion to Professor of Medicine with Tenure at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Center Director Robert Schwabe, MD and his team for their paper in Nature titled "Hepatic stellate cells control liver zonation, size and functions via R-spondin 3" rdcu.be/ediAk

Congratulations to DLDRC member, Harris Wang, PhD and his team on their recent publication in Nature Microbiology! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39901058/

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Member, Jianwen Que, MD, PhD and his team for their recent publication in Nature! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39910313/

Congratulations to DLDRC BioImaging Core Director Kenneth Olive, PhD and his team for being listed in Columbia's 13 science discoveries that had an impact in 2024!

Congratulations to DLDRC Member Nicholas Arpaia, PhD and his team for being listed in Columbia's 13 science discoveries that had an impact in 2024!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Associate Director, Timothy Wang, MD, who is the new Vice Chair for Academic Programs for the Department of Medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons! Dr Wang will add this new role to his portfolio effective September 3rd, 2024.

Hearty welcome to our Community Representative, Ms. Moraima Irizarry! She is a resident of Washington Heights and deeply rooted to its community in the highly diverse upper-Manhattan neighborhood. She has a background in laboratory technology, grants and biology research!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Member Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD and his team for their publication in Science Immunology on the role of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in mucosal protection! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC Member, Elizabeth Verna, MD and her team for being awarded a five year sub-award from NIDDK for their proposal to study the role of frailty in acutely ill patients with cirrhosis undergoing liver transplantation!

Congratulations to CU-DLDRC member, Ira Tabas, MD, PhD for being awarded a grant by Carisma Therapeutics Inc. for his project "Testing chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) therapy in experimental NASH"! Congratulations to Dr Tabas and his team!