As the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia continues to expand, clinicians are investigating new treatment approaches ranging from autologous to allogeneic and haplo-identical transplantation.

Lisa A. Newman, an internationally renowned breast surgeon and researcher, joined NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center as Chief of Breast Surgery and Chief of the Interdisciplinary Breast Program.

In a study published in the December 11, 2015 issue of Science, Lewis C. Cantley and his team reported that high doses of vitamin C impaired the growth of KRAS mutant and BRAF mutant colorectal tumors.

These highly prestigious and competitive awards will encourage and support the best young physician-scientists in pursuing research aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.

NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital has been named an accredited center of care by the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation (CCF), a national nonprofit organization committed to improving the health outcomes and quality of life for children with cardiomyopathy.

According to Harsimran S. Singh, MD several retrospective and randomized control trials have investigated the association of PFOs with cryptogenic stroke and the efficacy of PFO closure in the prevention of recurrent stroke.

Emile A. Bacha, MD leads a team of four pediatric cardiac surgeons who each year perform 175 newborn heart repairs — a volume that makes NewYork-Presbyterian the largest congenital heart defect referral center in the region.

On June 1, 2017, Ralf J. Holzer, MD, MSc, joined NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine as Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Director of Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization at the Komansky Children’s Hospital.