Simon Tavaré Takes Aim at Cancer with Math
A pioneering statistician and world-leading cancer expert, Tavaré will head up the newly established Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University.
A pioneering statistician and world-leading cancer expert, Tavaré will head up the newly established Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University.
‘Orion,’ a technique developed by Columbia University scientists and their colleagues, will help researchers identify disease-causing mutations in patients when current methods come up dry.
Some of the same key survival traits that have kept us alive for thousands of generations are killing us today. That is the thesis of cardiologist Lee Goldman, dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, chief executive of Columbia University Medical Center and executive vice president for Health and Biomedical Sciences at Columbia University, in a new book aptly titled Too Much of a Good Thing.