Center for Infection and Immunity

For their research that had a tremendous impact on global food security, nutrition, and livelihoods, Columbia Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity researchers were recognized by BARD - US Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund Development Fund!

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#MeetOurResearchers: Post-doctoral research fellow, Orchid, combs through past datasets to identify potential microbial biomarkers in the gut for our upcoming #MECFS #metagenomic paper

COVID-19 brought the movie "Contagion" back into the mainstream. What did it get right? What did it get wrong? Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, Center for Infection and Immunity Director and advisor on the film, speaks to The Irish Times about its resurgence.

While most of the world was running away from COVID-19 in its beginning stages, Dr. W. Ian Lipkin of the Center for Infection and Immunity was running towards it. Discover what drives this master virus hunter in the new Columbia Magazine.

Yesterday, #ColumbiaNursing students and faculty joined the Greater New York City - Black Nurses Association, Inc. and more than 1,000 health care providers from the tri-state area in a protest in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives

ICYMI! In September 2019, Dr. Ian Lipkin spoke at the CDC about our past and current #MECFS research. In this talk, Dr. Lipkin covers some new information, incl...uding exciting details about TruCulture, a technology being employed to investigate how immune cells from people with ME/CFS respond to different stimuli. He also presents some yet-to-be published findings from a plasma proteomics study, detailing differential expression of specific immunoglobulins in people with ME/CFS. Dr. Lipkin goes on to discuss a promising epigenetics pilot, stating: I think this is really some of the most promising data I’ve seen thus far, that has to do with talking about ways in which genomic modification might occur. Follow the link below to see a blog of the transcript from the video with images, as well as an embedded copy of the video. Relevant content starts at 21:15. Make sure to subscribe to the blog to stay up-to-date with all of our center’s work! https://cfsformecfs.org//25/a-microbe-hunter-turns-to-me-/

Local artist M. Tony Peralta has painted a mural honoring health care workers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He said, Thank you to all the healt...h care workers. Hope this makes you smile on your way to and from work. Thank you, Tony, and thank you, health care workers! #ColumbiaNursingStrong #NurseHeroes See more

It's the season for ticks. Here's some expert advice from Columbia University's Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center on how to avoid them this summer.