IICD Honored at S Jay Levy Fellowship Gala with Internship Partner Award
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IICD was honored to receive the annual Internship Partner Award from the S Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders during its gala on April 30, 2026. For the past four years, IICD has partnered with the fellowship to welcome students from the City College of New York to our Undergraduate Summer Research Program.
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Meet the Students Joining IICD’s 2026 Summer Research Program
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This summer, IICD welcomes 13 undergraduate students to its 2026 Summer Research Program (SRP), the largest cohort in the program’s history. Selected from a record number of applications, these interns will spend the summer conducting interdisciplinary cancer dynamics research alongside IICD scientists while participating in mentorship and professional development opportunities.
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Columbia Researchers Map How SHP2 Mutations Reprogram Cells
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Using multiplexed single-cell sequencing, researchers from the McFaline-Figueroa and Shah labs uncovered how different disease-associated SHP2 mutations reshape cellular signaling and gene expression, offering new insights into cancer and developmental disorders. These findings, recently published in Science Advances, led to identifying properties of mutants at a molecular and biochemical level.
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Welcome to new IICD member Andrea Terceros! Dr. Terceros is a postdoctoral research scientist co-mentored by Dr. José McFaline-Figueroa and Dr. Elham Azizi. Her research interests include computational biology and single cell genomics.
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Congratulations to Dr. Khanh Dinh, Associate Research Scientist in the IICD and in the Department of Statistics, who was awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) for his project titled “Deciphering cancer origin from DNA evolution.”
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The IICD and Zuckerman Institute recently welcomed students grades 6-8 from Q StudioLab for a visit focused on science, discovery, and research. Students had the opportunity to tour labs, participate in hands-on demonstrations, and hear about careers in STEM.
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Recent Publications from IICD Researchers
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Chromatic Convergence for the Algebraic K-Theory of the Sphere Spectrum. Blumberg, A. J.; Mandell, M. A.; Yuan, A. Journal of the London Mathematical Society 2026, 113 (4), e70467.
Mapping National Definitions, Classifications, and Policy Approaches to Poor-Prognosis Cancers Across the G7 Cancer Initiative Countries. Nishio, M.; Sugiyama, H.; McCormack, V.; Viguier, J.; Quesnel, B.; Iovanna, J.; Dusetti, N.; Hammel, P.; Henrion, M.-C.; Monge, C.; McKay, T.; Chen, A.; Nowicki-Osuch, K.; Abe, S.; Hirabayashi, M.; Tanitame, M.; Tajima, T.; Inoue, M.; Matsuda, T. JCO Glob Oncol 2026, 12 (4), e2500483.
Objective-Specific Privileged Bases via Full-Prefix Matryoshka Learning. Talukder, A.; Chlenski, P.; Pe'er, I. arXiv 2026.
Robust Representation Learning through Explicit Environment Modeling.Slavutsky, Y.; Blei, D. M. arXiv 2026.
When Pathways Converge: Iron, Lipid Peroxidation, and α-Synuclein in Ferroptosis-Driven Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration. Sperlich, C. L.; Stockwell, B. R.; Farina, M. Journal of Neurochemistry 2026, 170 (4), e70438.
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