Upcoming Programs and Events

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts a variety of programs and events for our members, patients, and community.

If you would like your event posted on this webpage, please contact the Communications Office at cucancercomms@cumc.columbia.edu.

E.g., 10/15/2021

  • Columbia Life Science Accelerators: Call for Pre-Proposals

    Monday, October 4, 2021 to Monday, November 15, 2021
    All day
    Online
    • Awards
    • Basic Health Sciences
    • Clinical Health Sciences
    • College of Dental Medicine
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    • Columbia Nursing
    • Computer Science
    • Engineering
    • Healthcare
    • Mailman School of Public Health
    • Natural Sciences
    • Research
    Columbia Life Science Accelerators: Call for Pre-Proposals Are you interested in bringing your life science innovations to life? The Columbia Life Science Accelerator programs help translate cutting-edge faculty-led university research out of the lab through project funding, education, and support for interdisciplinary teams working to advance innovative ideas with the potential to positively impact health outcomes. The 2021-2022 cycle focuses on: Therapeutics/Drug Development - Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics, Translational Therapeutics Resource and Medical Technologies/Devices/Software - Biomedical Engineering Technology Accelerator (formerly Columbia-Coulter program). To learn more, please REGISTER HERE for a virtual info session.   Applications are now open until Monday, November 15th at 11:59PM ET and can be SUBMITTED HERE. Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, November 15, 2021 Award Cycle: 2022 amount_upper: $100,000 Eligibility:  Applicants must have a full-time Columbia University faculty appointment. Graduate students and post doctorate trainees can act as project leads with permission from the principal investigators (PIs). Projects must focus on translating a validated target toward commercialization and address a clear unmet medical need. Projects that focus on new treatments for novel disease targets, new drugs for known targets and pathways, and new activities for currently known and/or approved drugs (repurposing) are eligible.   Contact: Jack Steele L2M@ctv.columbia.edu http://labtomarket.columbia.edu  

  • BME Seminar: Milan Yager, MPA, Executive Director, AIMBE

    Friday, November 5, 2021
    11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    Northwest Corner Building, 550 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027
    • Engineering
    • Research
    • Healthcare
    On Friday, November 5th @ 11:00AM ET, we welcome Milan Yager, Executive Director of AIMBE, as he presents, "Buck Rogers and The Endless Frontier: America’s Innovation Design Flaw." ABOUT THE SEMINAR Buck Rogers and The Endless Frontier: America’s Innovation Design Flaw Everyone loves innovation. Innovation is the bedrock of America’s past global dominance in the marketplace, at the bedside, on the battlefield, and for the frontiers of tomorrow. Yet, innovation just didn’t happen. Choices were made. Priorities established. Leadership navigated. But the times are different. American is different. The endless frontiers of science, health and wellbeing are different. Even the truth of vaccines is different. Can American ever again land a man on the moon or tackle a global pandemic? How is it possible the future is in question? Has science or politics failed us? Can America’s universities survive?  Is there a future for young investigators?  It isn’t as simple as rocket science. It isn’t science at all. The answers are in the design flaws threatening innovation, medical discovery, public health, and America’s competitiveness. Can Buck Rogers save us? Is there a bioengineer hero in this comic strip of real-life consequences?   ABOUT THE SPEAKER Milan Yager, MPA, Executive Director, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Milan Yager is a long-time Washington political insider and association executive.  Mr. Yager is currently the Executive Director of AIMBE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an honorific society of the most accomplished innovators in the fields of medical and biological engineering.   Previously, he served as an Administration political appointee to a regulatory agency, held senior lobbyist positions for two national trade associations, testified before Congress, was Chief of Staff to a Member of Congress, a candidate for public office, and has participated in congressional and presidential campaigns.  He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has a Master’s in Public Administration from The American University in Washington, D.C.   ABOUT THE 2021-2022 BME SEMINAR SERIES The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University is proud to host an annual weekly seminar series on the latest developments and research in Biomedical Engineering. The weekly series takes place on Friday mornings at 11:00AM Eastern and includes a variety of renowned academics from top universities to talk about their specific research and experience.

  • Rising Stars in Engineering in Health - 2021 Workshop

    Friday, November 19, 2021 to Saturday, November 20, 2021
    All day
    Mudd Hall, 500 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    • Engineering
    • Healthcare
    • College of Dental Medicine
    • Clinical Health Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
    • Teaching and Learning
    For the first time this fall, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University are joining forces to co-host our annual Rising Stars in Engineering in Health Workshop. As each institution pursues excellence in engineering in health, we have made it our priority to do so in an environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. With this in mind, Columbia Engineering, Columbia Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering are pleased to co-host this annual workshop, working side-by-side to innovate at the intersection of engineering and health science and educate the next generation of scientists.  The in-person, two-day interactive workshop will take place on Friday-Saturday, November 19-20, 2021 on Columbia's Morningside campus in New York City, and will feature rapid-fire research talks, educational presentations, intensive workshops, mock interviews, and panel discussions with Columbia and Johns Hopkins faculty. We welcome applicants from across the United States who are interested in the intersection of engineering and biomedicine, and who include postdoctoral fellows/research scientists and graduate students who are 1-2 years away from applying for a faculty position. We especially encourage applicants from groups historically underrepresented in the disciplines. Eligibility:  Applicants must be doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, or research scientists who aspire to seek a faculty position in the interdisciplinary field of engineering and biomedicine in Fall 2022 or later. Selection:  Twenty+ rising stars will be selected from the applicant pool to participate as presenters and participants in the Workshop. All qualified applicants, whether they are selected as a rising star or not, will be invited to participate (virtually) in the educational portions of the Workshop. Application Requirements:  Applicants should submit the following materials via the Google Form linked above:  2-page academic statement 1-page diversity statement CV Applicants are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible and no later than July 16, 2021. Notification:  Successful applicants will be notified by August 18, 2021.

  • BME Seminar: Yamuna Krishnan, Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Friday, February 11, 2022
    11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    Northwest Corner Building, 550 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027
    • Engineering
    • Research
    • Healthcare
    On Friday, February 11th @ 11:00AM ET, we welcome Prof. Yamuna Krishnan from the University of Chicago as she presents, "Quantitative Chemical Imaging of Organelles." ABOUT THE SEMINAR Quantitative Chemical Imaging of Organelles To quantitate lumenal chemistry, my lab developed a DNA-based reporter technology coupled with image analysis methods to derive chemical heat-maps of organelles by fluorescently imaging lumenal ions or reactive species in living systems. This technology can now be used for discovery biology or biomedical applications by interrogating organelles of cells in culture, in live multicellular organisms in cells obtained from blood or skin biopsies from human patients. We recently solved a thirty-year problem in molecular sensing by mapping lumenal calcium in acidic organelles and in doing so, identified the first example of a protein that facilitates lysosomal Ca2+ import in the animal kingdom. We have used a fluorescent DNA-based reporter of absolute membrane potential to measure the previously unknown membrane potentials of different organelles in situ in live cells. I will close with a discussion on what it would take to develop an electrochemical model for every organelle membrane, thereby enabling an exploration of the genesis and function of organellar electrochemical gradients.   ABOUT THE SPEAKER Yamuna Krishnan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry & Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, University of Chicago Yamuna Krishnan is Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 2014. She received a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2002 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research group pioneered the use of DNA-nanotechnology to study living cells and taking DNA-nanotechnology into the world of precision medicine. She was featured on Cell’s top 40 under 40 of scientists that are shaping current and future trends in Biology and the LSDP’s Top 100.   ABOUT THE 2021-2022 BME SEMINAR SERIES The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University is proud to host an annual weekly seminar series on the latest developments and research in Biomedical Engineering. The weekly series takes place on Friday mornings at 11:00AM Eastern and includes a variety of renowned academics from top universities to talk about their specific research and experience.