Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
@cancerdynamics.bsky.social
The Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) focuses on the interplay between mathematical sciences and cancer research at Columbia University.
https://linktr.ee/cancerdynamics
https://linktr.ee/cancerdynamics
New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine.
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine.
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.
@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads!
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads!
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience
Next in our seminar series, Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who will discuss cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Next in our seminar series, Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who will discuss cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.
Big news: The Vicković Lab’s study on colon aging has been accepted by @natbiotech.nature.com! The team built a detailed atlas of aging colon tissue, using spatial transcriptomics + a new tool (cSplotch) to profile ~1,500 samples & 400k nuclei.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7
#SpatialTranscriptomics
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7
#SpatialTranscriptomics
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Big news: The Vicković Lab’s study on colon aging has been accepted by @natbiotech.nature.com! The team built a detailed atlas of aging colon tissue, using spatial transcriptomics + a new tool (cSplotch) to profile ~1,500 samples & 400k nuclei.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7
#SpatialTranscriptomics
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7
#SpatialTranscriptomics
Welcome to Hamza Golubovic, a PhD student in statistics in Genevera Allen’s group @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social. Hamza has been developing interpretable machine learning methods related to feature importance and signal processing in high dimensional settings.
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Welcome to Hamza Golubovic, a PhD student in statistics in Genevera Allen’s group @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social. Hamza has been developing interpretable machine learning methods related to feature importance and signal processing in high dimensional settings.
Columbia Researchers! Join us for the inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop led by Sanket Rane.
📅 Date: Nov 19, 2-5 PM ET
📍 Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603
✍️ Register by: Nov. 17 (5 PM ET)
Link: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
📅 Date: Nov 19, 2-5 PM ET
📍 Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603
✍️ Register by: Nov. 17 (5 PM ET)
Link: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
October 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Columbia Researchers! Join us for the inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop led by Sanket Rane.
📅 Date: Nov 19, 2-5 PM ET
📍 Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603
✍️ Register by: Nov. 17 (5 PM ET)
Link: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
📅 Date: Nov 19, 2-5 PM ET
📍 Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603
✍️ Register by: Nov. 17 (5 PM ET)
Link: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
✨Alumni Spotlight: Mingzhang Yin, former @cancerdynamics.bsky.social and @datascicolumbia.bsky.social postdoc, is now a faculty at University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business.
His work bridges statistics, AI, & marketing to drive new insights in research and industry.
bit.ly/47nRyT9
His work bridges statistics, AI, & marketing to drive new insights in research and industry.
bit.ly/47nRyT9
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
✨Alumni Spotlight: Mingzhang Yin, former @cancerdynamics.bsky.social and @datascicolumbia.bsky.social postdoc, is now a faculty at University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business.
His work bridges statistics, AI, & marketing to drive new insights in research and industry.
bit.ly/47nRyT9
His work bridges statistics, AI, & marketing to drive new insights in research and industry.
bit.ly/47nRyT9
Congratulations to IICD member @brentstockwell.bsky.social who was awarded an NCI P01 grant with Xuejun Jiang (MSK) and Wei Gu (CUIMC).
Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s...
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social
Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s...
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Congratulations to IICD member @brentstockwell.bsky.social who was awarded an NCI P01 grant with Xuejun Jiang (MSK) and Wei Gu (CUIMC).
Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s...
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social
Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s...
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social
Welcome to Anirban Nath, a PhD student in statistics co-advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) and Ming Yuan (@datascicolumbia.bsky.social). His research focuses on developing distribution-free inference methods for interpretable machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Welcome to Anirban Nath, a PhD student in statistics co-advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) and Ming Yuan (@datascicolumbia.bsky.social). His research focuses on developing distribution-free inference methods for interpretable machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.
IICD Monthly Research Roundup – September 2025
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @braphael.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @braphael.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
IICD Monthly Research Roundup – September 2025
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @braphael.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @braphael.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social
Thank you to Dr. Teresa Davoli (NYU Langone) who shared about her latest research on cancer aneuploidy with our researchers. cc: @khanhndinh.bsky.social
Missed it? Watch the recording here: youtu.be/ZRzrjes7knQ?...
Missed it? Watch the recording here: youtu.be/ZRzrjes7knQ?...
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thank you to Dr. Teresa Davoli (NYU Langone) who shared about her latest research on cancer aneuploidy with our researchers. cc: @khanhndinh.bsky.social
Missed it? Watch the recording here: youtu.be/ZRzrjes7knQ?...
Missed it? Watch the recording here: youtu.be/ZRzrjes7knQ?...
We are highlighting the work of IICD scientists advancing our understanding of breast cancer. Their research, along with collaborative efforts across Columbia, continues to drive progress toward more precise and effective breast cancer treatments: bit.ly/4pHt8MD
#BreastCancerAwareness
#BreastCancerAwareness
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are highlighting the work of IICD scientists advancing our understanding of breast cancer. Their research, along with collaborative efforts across Columbia, continues to drive progress toward more precise and effective breast cancer treatments: bit.ly/4pHt8MD
#BreastCancerAwareness
#BreastCancerAwareness
October newsletter is out. Watch the latest Faces of IICD interview, read about the latest breast cancer research highlights and the GROW conference, and more.
cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
#BreastCancerAwareness @nygenome.org @elhamazizi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social
cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
#BreastCancerAwareness @nygenome.org @elhamazizi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
October newsletter is out. Watch the latest Faces of IICD interview, read about the latest breast cancer research highlights and the GROW conference, and more.
cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
#BreastCancerAwareness @nygenome.org @elhamazizi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social
cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
#BreastCancerAwareness @nygenome.org @elhamazizi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social
Thrilled to welcome Irene Chang to IICD! Irene is a PhD student in Statistics, advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social). Her research focuses on simplifying manifold learning methods with efficient neural networks for better interpretability and results on high-dimensional data.
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thrilled to welcome Irene Chang to IICD! Irene is a PhD student in Statistics, advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social). Her research focuses on simplifying manifold learning methods with efficient neural networks for better interpretability and results on high-dimensional data.
Columbia welcomed 90 undergrads from around the country for GROW 2025, a conference supporting students in the mathematical sciences! Proud to sponsor this inspiring event for a second year with our Columbia partners. #GROW2025
Read more: bit.ly/4nnAIKO
Read more: bit.ly/4nnAIKO
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Columbia welcomed 90 undergrads from around the country for GROW 2025, a conference supporting students in the mathematical sciences! Proud to sponsor this inspiring event for a second year with our Columbia partners. #GROW2025
Read more: bit.ly/4nnAIKO
Read more: bit.ly/4nnAIKO
Cheers to a great IICD Welcome Back Happy Hour! Always a joy to reconnect and celebrate our community. Looking forward to the next one! 🥂#IICDCommunity
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Cheers to a great IICD Welcome Back Happy Hour! Always a joy to reconnect and celebrate our community. Looking forward to the next one! 🥂#IICDCommunity
We’re excited to welcome YoonHaeng Hur, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Statistics and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social, to the IICD community!
In Dr. Genevera Allen’s group, YoonHaeng develops mathematical and statistical foundations for data science.
#Welcome #IICD #DataScience
In Dr. Genevera Allen’s group, YoonHaeng develops mathematical and statistical foundations for data science.
#Welcome #IICD #DataScience
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We’re excited to welcome YoonHaeng Hur, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Statistics and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social, to the IICD community!
In Dr. Genevera Allen’s group, YoonHaeng develops mathematical and statistical foundations for data science.
#Welcome #IICD #DataScience
In Dr. Genevera Allen’s group, YoonHaeng develops mathematical and statistical foundations for data science.
#Welcome #IICD #DataScience
Today is #NationalCancerResearchDay!
We’re grateful for our IICD researchers, students, and collaborators pushing the boundaries of cancer research every day, bringing us closer to better treatments and cures.
#CancerResearch #TeamScience #IICD #WorldCancerResearchDay
We’re grateful for our IICD researchers, students, and collaborators pushing the boundaries of cancer research every day, bringing us closer to better treatments and cures.
#CancerResearch #TeamScience #IICD #WorldCancerResearchDay
September 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today is #NationalCancerResearchDay!
We’re grateful for our IICD researchers, students, and collaborators pushing the boundaries of cancer research every day, bringing us closer to better treatments and cures.
#CancerResearch #TeamScience #IICD #WorldCancerResearchDay
We’re grateful for our IICD researchers, students, and collaborators pushing the boundaries of cancer research every day, bringing us closer to better treatments and cures.
#CancerResearch #TeamScience #IICD #WorldCancerResearchDay