News
April 15 2024
Ivaylo Ivanov, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, awarded 2024 Young Investigator Award by the Society for Mucosal Immunology.
March 26 2024
Hachung Chung, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, awarded 2024 Pershing Square Foundation “MIND” Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery).
February 14 2024
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is selected as an Inaugural Fellow of the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE), in recognition of outstanding contributions and dedication to science.
January 25 2024
Uttiya Basu, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the Henry Kunkel Society (HKS).
January 10 2024
Research by Ivaylo Ivanov, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, that found friendly microbes in the gut induce anti-inflammatory T cells and could lead to new treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases is featured by Columbia University Irving Medical Center News.
December 15 2023
Research by Uttiya Basu, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, that clarifies how low-grade B-cell lymphomas transform into more aggressive lymphomas is featured by Columbia University Irving Medical Center News.
November 7 2023
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the oldest science academy of India.
October 17 2023
Ryan Gaudet, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, recieves NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award for “Decoding the Interferome by Mapping Genetic Interactions in Human Tissue”.
October 10 2023
David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
April 19 2023
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAA&S).
February 15 2023
David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the American Academy of Microbiology of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
January 23 2023
Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys II Professor of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).
November 15 2022
Three Microbiology & Immunology faculty, Professor Donna Farber, Chair and Professor Sankar Ghosh and Professor David Ho, were named to the 2022 Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers list as researchers who have attained exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations during the past decade. In 2022, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, earned this exclusive distinction.
October 17 2022
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Feburary 15 2022
Yiping Han, Professor of Microbial Sciences in Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology is elected to the American Academy of Microbiology of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
July 6 2021
Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys II Professor of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology will direct a new initiative on human tissue immunity and disease that will be based in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology.
May 19 2021
Nicholas Arpaia, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, received The Harold and Golden Lamport Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research during the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Graduation Ceremony. This award was initiated in 1983 to recognize outstanding young researchers in the basic and clinical sciences.
April 26 2021
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
January 21 2021
Research by two Microbiology & Immunology faculty, Assistant Professor Nicholas Arpaia Professor on bacteria and immunotherapy and Professor Donna Farber on tissue resident T cells is featured in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center 2020 Annual Report.
January 11 2021
Two Microbiology & Immunology faculty, Professor Donna Farber and Associate Professor Ivaylo Ivanov, were named to the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list as researchers who have demonstrated influence in their field through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the past decade.
November 30 2020
David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is awarded the MMV Project of the Year for 2020 by the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
November 16 2020
David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is the 2020 recipient of the William Trager Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for his groundbreaking research on genome editing in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
November 5 2020
Research led by Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys II Professor of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and published in Nature Immunology is featured in an article in The New York Times, “Children Produce Weaker Coronavirus Antibodies, Study Finds”.
November 5 2020
Research led by Anne Moscona, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Matteo Porotto, Associate Professor of Viral Molecular Pathogenesis is featured in an article in The New York Times, “Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds”.
October 7 2020
Chi-Min Ho, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, receives an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award for her project “Molecular Basis of Effector Protein Export in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum”.
September 1 2020
David Ho, Director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center joins the department as Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
September 11 2020
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology will hold its first M&I Virtual Retreat on Friday, September 11, 2020, from 8:15 AM–7:00 PM EST. The retreat will feature remote faculty presentations, virtual poster sessions and poster presentation videos.
August 5 2020
Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, was quoted in an article in The Atlantic, “Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die” on the interaction of COVID-19 and the immune system, and was also quoted in a related article in The New York Times, “Scientists Uncover Biological Signatures of the Worst Covid-19 Cases”.
July 17 2020
This Week in Virology, hosted by Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, testing, immunity, pathogenesis, vaccines, and preparedness.
July 1 2020
Hachung Chung, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, named a 2020 Searle Scholar and awarded a Searle Scholars Program grant for her project “Investigating the mechanism of intrinsic type I IFN production and regulation in the brain”.
July 1 2020
Uttiya Basu promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
April 27 2020
Lorraine Symington, Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
April 21 2020
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and his This Week in Virology podcast were featured in The New York Times Magazine feature article “How Scientists Could Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts”.
March 13 2020
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, was featured in a discussion on CNN of how a declaration of national emergency could mobilize additional resources in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Dr. Racaniello was also quoted by the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
February 11 2020
Research by Professor of Microbiology & Immunology David Fidock and a multidisciplinary team on the structure and drug resistance of the Plasmodium falciparum PfCRT transporter is published in Nature and featured in the NIH Director's Blog.
November 26 2019
Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
August 1 2019
Nicholas Arpaia, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology wins 2018-2019 Translational Therapeutics (TRx)/Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT) Pilot Award for “Programmable Bacteria for Tumor Targeting Immunotherapeutic Delivery” proposal.
July 3 2019
Research by Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Nicholas Arpaia on programming bacteria to kill tumors is published in Nature Medicine and featured in the New York Times.
July 1 2019
Ivalyo Ivanov promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology with tenure.
May 29 2019
Kristin Hogquist, Davis M. Brown Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department for Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota, delivered the 33rd Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Mariana Justino Lage de Almeida and Julyun Oh received the 2019 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for their outstanding and innovative work.
May 20 2019
Ivalyo Ivanov, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology wins a Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s 2019 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award for “Regulation of mucosal infections by innate lymphoid cells” proposal.
May 15 2019
Hachung Chung, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology wins Junior Faculty Grant award for “Investigating the Mechanism of Autoinflammation: Identifying Self-RNA Species that Trigger Inflammation” proposal.
September 6, 2018
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology wins 2019 American Society for Microbiology Award for Education.
August 28 2018
Research led by David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology identifies mutations in the PfCRT gene of the malaria parasite that are likely responsible for failures of malaria treatment in Southeast Asia.
April 23 2018
Lorraine Symington, Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
April 6 2018
Ira Mellman, Vice President of Cancer Immunology at Genentech and Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF, delivered the 32nd Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Matthew Decker received the 2018 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
March 2 2018
Nicholas Arpaia, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology wins Roy and Diana Vagelos Precision Medicine Pilot Award for "Programmable probiotics for personalized cancer immunotherapy" proposal.
September 8 2017
Research led by David Fidock, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology identifies a new class of drug candidates that may reduce spread of the malaria parasite.
September 1 2017
David Fidock, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is named C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
June 7 2017
Akiko Iwasaki, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University, delivered the 31st Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Casandra Panea received the 2017 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
May 23 2017
Sankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the AECOM Distinguished PhD Alumnus Award.
March 31 2017
Nicholas Arpaia, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is named a 2017 Searle Scholar.
October 24 2016
Stephen Goff, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and Microbiology & Immunology, awarded the 2017 American Society for Microbiology David C. White Research and Mentoring Award for distinguished accomplishments in interdisciplinary research and mentoring in microbiology.
October 20 2016
David Fidock, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, awarded 2016 Advance Global Australian of the Year Award. View Dr. Fidock's acceptance speech video. He was also recently elected to the Council of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and named a fellow of the ASTMH in September 2016.
September 1 2016
Arnold Han joins the department as Assistant Professor of Medicine in Digestive and Liver Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology.
September 1 2016
Nicholas Arpaia joins the department as Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
June 22 2016
Research by Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics & Immunology Stephen Goff demonstrating direct transmission of cancer in several species of clams, including one case of cross-species transmission, is featured by the CUMC Newsroom with an accompanying video. The research was published in Nature and also featured in the New York Times.
June 1 2016
Uttiya Basu, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, awarded 2016 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Prize.
June 1 2016
Yasmine Belkaid, Senior Investigator and Chief, Muscosal Immunology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIH/NIAID, delivered the 30th Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Sarah Deng received the 2016 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
May 31 2016
Discussion of the latest findings on Zika virus by Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Vincent Racaniello is featured by the CUMC Newsroom with an accompanying video.
March 31 2016
Research led by Shankar Ghosh, Chair and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, identifying a common variant in a non-coding RNA that may contribute to intestinal inflammation that occurs in people with celiac disease is featured by the CUMC Newsroom with an accompanying video.
May 13 2015
Craig B. Thompson, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center delivered the 29th Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Naomi Yudanin, Evangelos Pefanis and Jaeyop Lee received the 2015 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
November 2 2014
David Fidock, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, recieves the Bailey K. Ashford Medal for distinguished work in tropical medicine.
June 23 2014
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, is elected President of the American Society of Virology.
March 19 2014
Dan R. Littman, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Pathology, Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University delivered the 28th Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Huan Chen received the 2014 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
March 6 2013
Ruslan Medzhitov, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University delivered the 27th Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Roy Maute received the 2013 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
September 19 2012
John Boothroyd, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University delivered the 19th Harry M. Rose Memorial Lecture in Infectious Diseases.
September 6-7 2012
2012 Microbiology & Immunology annual retreat held at the Basking Ridge Conference Center.
July 1 2012
David Fidock promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medical Sciences (in Medicine).
April 11 2012
Mark M. Davis, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology, Stanford University delivered the 2012 Heidelberger-Kabat Distinguished Lecture in Immunology.
March 26 2012
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, receives Peter Wildy Prize for Microbiology Education.
February 22 2012
C. David Allis, Tri-Institutional Professor, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, Rockefeller University delivered the 26th Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Celia Keim and Christal Vitiello received the 2012 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
October 25 2011
We regretfully note the passing of Benvenuto G. Pernis, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine.
September 23 2011
Uttiya Basu, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, recieves NIH Director's New Innovator Award.
September 8-9 2011
2011 Microbiology & Immunology annual retreat held at the Basking Ridge Conference Center. Dr. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Northeast Biodefense Center, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Columbia University presented the keynote lecture.
September 8 2011
We regretfully note the passing of Bernard F. Erlanger, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology & Immunology.
August 25 2011
Inaugural issue of the department's M&I Newsletter published.
May 25 2011
Jonathan Dworkin, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, receives Burroughs-Welcome Scholar in Infectious Disease Award.
April 19 2011
Max Gottesman, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
March 25 2011
Philippe Sansonetti, Professor & Chair of Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses and Head Unite de Pathogenie Microbienne Moleculaire and Unite INSERM 786, Institut Pasteur delivered the 2011 Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. This was the 25th lecture in the series. Kanako Lewis recieved the 2011 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
January 11 2011
Saul Silverstein, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
January 1 2011
Ivaylo Ivanov joins the department as Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
September 16-17 2010
2010 Microbiology & Immunology annual retreat held at the Basking Ridge Conference Center. Thomas Maniatis, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University presented the keynote lecture.
September 1 2010
Department of Microbiology & Immunology Flow Cytometry Core opens.
July 1 2010
Kang Liu joins the department as Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
June 2 2010
Susan Gottesman, Co-chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI delivered the 2010 Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Allison Fay recieved the 2010 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
May 26 2010
Max Gottesman, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, elected a Fellow of the Academy of the American Society for Microbiology.
April 1 2010
Megan Sykes of Harvard Medical School joins the department as Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.
December 18 2009
Lorraine Symington, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
October 14 2009
Anthony Fauci delivered the 2009 Richard C. Parker Memorial Lecture, hosted by the students of Microbiology & Immunology. Eleni Mimitou recieved the 2009 Richard C. Parker Graduate Student Award for outstanding and innovative work.
September 30 2009
David Fidock, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine, receives NIH Transformative R01 Award.
September 16 2009
Rafi Ahmed, Director, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, presented the 2009 Calame Lecture in Immunology.
September 10-11 2009
2009 Microbiology & Immunology annual retreat held at the IBM Palisades Conference Center. Thomas Pollard, Chairman of the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University presented the keynote lecture.
December 25 2009
Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, recognized for This Week in Virology podcast.
July 1 2009
Department of Microbiology officially becomes Department of Microbiology & Immunology.
April 21 2009
Sankar Ghosh, Chair of Microbiology, presented the 2009 Heidelberger-Kabat Dean's Distinguished Lecture in Immunology.
December 1 2008
Sankar Ghosh, noted immunologist, appointed new Chair of Microbiology.