Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics

The IICD Seminar Series returns this fall! Join us monthly for talks from top minds in cancer dynamics—from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Human Technopole, and more. 📍2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom 📅 Full lineup: bit.ly/4kT5YPC #CancerResearch #IICD

Thank you to @ProfMonaSingh of @EPrinceton for an outstanding IICD Seminar Series talk on computational methods for interpreting cancer genomes and uncovering cancer-relevant genomic alterations. A great close to our 2025–2026 seminar series! #CancerResearch

Photo by Sirin Samman Photography

Truly honored to receive the Internship Partner Award from the S Jay Levy Fellowship from @CityCollegeNY 🤝 For the past 4 years, fellows have joined our Summer Research Program and made amazing contributions. Excited for the future of this partnership > bit.ly/43doPhP

This week, IICD and @ZuckermanBrain hosted middle school students from Q StudioLab for a visit focused on science, research, and discovery. Students had the opportunity to connect with IICD scientists over lunch and learn more about careers in STEM! #CancerResearch #Outreach

Reminder to register for our last seminar of 2025-26 ⬇️

Congratulations to @khanh_n_dinh on receiving an @NIH R01 grant for his project, “Deciphering cancer origin from DNA evolution.” His work aims to improve personalized cancer treatment decisions. Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/khanh-din…

May's research meeting featured talks by 2 graduate students: 💻Decoding the Spatiotemporal Drivers of Epigenetic Regulation with Bayesian SPARROW by Ruiyang He 🔬Multi-Omics Characterization of Tumor-Microbiome Spatiotemporal Interactions by Ioana Lia See you next semester!

This #CancerResearchMonth, we’re highlighting researchers expanding how we understand cancer at many levels. Check out our feature on @GaublommeL to learn more about #geneediting and #spatialanalysis and what it means for future patient therapies> bit.ly/48IG8e0

May is #CancerResearchMonth 💙 At IICD, we’re rethinking how cancer is studied—bringing together scientists, clinicians, and data experts to understand how cancer grows, adapts, and responds to treatment. Watch the full Youtube video > youtube.com/watch?v=cwDWhT…

📬 Our May newsletter is now available! Read more about our #NationalCancerResearchMonth spotlights (@gaublommel & Sanket Rane), a new Faces of IICD interview with @khanh_n_dinh, 2026 @AllianceProg cohort, upcoming events, recent publications, and more >cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-news…

This May, HICCC joins @AACR and cancer centers nationwide to celebrate National Cancer Research Month. With the theme “United by Research,” we look forward to sharing innovations shaping the field and stories bringing research to life at @ColumbiaMed cancer.columbia.edu/news/united-re…

Checking in on our 2026 @AllianceProg interns 👩‍🔬 A few weeks in, they’re already diving into hands-on cancer research at IICD. Learn more> bit.ly/47AwMk6

Time flies when you're in the lab! 🪰 🧪Last week, 15 students in Washington Heights and the Bronx completed HICCC's eClose cancer education program - learning how diet affects tumor growth using Drosophila (aka the fruit fly) as their model organism. @ColumbiaMed

IICD returned to Saturday Science (@zuckermanbrain ) with @BioBus this past weekend! Thanks to @khanh_n_dinh, Marina Milea, Kunal Pandit, and Peter Terranova for helping young learners discover biology and genetics. #ScienceEducation #Education (Photos credit: Sirin Samman)

@Cancer_dynamics @mssanjavickovic @nygenome @Columbia @ColumbiaScience @CUSEAS @ColumbiaBME @nygenome Powerful vision of the future here. Kudos to @mssanjavickovic and her lab. This is how we push the field forward. #DigitalPathology

Final Seminar of 2025-2026 on May 13 with @ProfMonaSingh from @PrincetonCS. Looking forward to hearing her insights at the intersection of computational biology, genomics, and machine learning. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3QMPyin

The IICD Seminar Series returns this fall! Join us monthly for talks from top minds in cancer dynamics—from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Human Technopole, and more. 📍2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom 📅 Full lineup: bit.ly/4kT5YPC #CancerResearch #IICD

Congrats to Dassi Mayerfield (SRP ’24) on receiving a 2026 @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! 🎉 One of the most prestigious awards for graduate students in STEM—well deserved 👏 Read more: nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…

We had a great IICD happy hour celebrating Maithe de Barros and her impact at IICD and beyond. Wishing her all the best in what’s ahead 💙🥂

Happy #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay from IICD! We’re grateful for the colleagues whose coordination, attention to detail, and dedication support every aspect of our research community.

IICD at #GRC2026 🔬 (@gordonconf ) @khanh_n_dinh and Ren Yi Wang are presenting new work on tumor clonality and clonal hematopoiesis at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Cancer Biology. Great to see IICD’s Jellert Gaublomme as Vice Chair. grc.org/single-cell-ca…