Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics@Cancer_dynamics

The Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) focuses on the interplay between mathematical sciences and cancer research @Columbia.

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Joined March 2020
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Welcome to the 2026-2027 Seminar Series! We are pleased to host researchers from institutions across the world, including @Stanford, @tcddublin, @harvardmed, and more > bit.ly/4waU5ue 2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom
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🎉 IICD SRP '25 alum and Emerging Scholars Award recipient Marina Milea was featured in MIT News! At @MIT, Marina investigated how lung cancers develop resistance to targeted therapies during her summer internship at the Koch Institute. 🔗 news.mit.edu/2026/finding-pu…
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Varosync@var0sync
Oct 22
Thank you to Columbia’s IICD team for hosting Harry yesterday. Watch the conversation on what it takes to make cancer models useful in the clinic below.
Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics@Cancer_dynamics
Oct 22
🧬 Thank you to Harry Kabodha, co-founder of @var0sync, for yesterday’s IICD Special Seminar! Harry discussed the challenges of translating computational cancer models from cellular data into clinically meaningful insights. Watch here: piped.video/i0jfUc-MLy0
Simon Tavaré introduces Harry Kabodha for the IICD Special Seminar

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Harry Kabodha, Varosync, presents at the IICD Special Seminar

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🧬 Thank you to Harry Kabodha, co-founder of @var0sync, for yesterday’s IICD Special Seminar! Harry discussed the challenges of translating computational cancer models from cellular data into clinically meaningful insights. Watch here: piped.video/i0jfUc-MLy0
Simon Tavaré introduces Harry Kabodha for the IICD Special Seminar

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Harry Kabodha, Varosync, presents at the IICD Special Seminar

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🎉 Congratulations to IICD's William Milligan, on receiving an @NIH F32 fellowship! Under the mentorship of Molly Przeworski, he'll investigate how genetic mutations arise and what drives differences in mutation rates. 🔗 cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
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Lingting Shi@shi_lingting
Oct 19
Had a great time at the #STATSummit! 🌟 Honored to be a 2026 #STATWunderkind. Loved meeting fellow Wunderkinds and hearing diverse perspectives on science and medicine. Huge thanks to @statnews, my mentors, and lab communities for their support!
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🎉 We're excited to welcome Dr. Emilie Wedenborg to IICD! In @bidumit lab, Emilie combines machine learning and Bayesian statistics to develop interpretable models of complex biological systems.
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New member Emilie Wedenborg, PhD

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📄 New research in @‌Nature from IICD affiliate member @SohrabShah (@MSKCancerCenter)and collaborators! The study reveals how cancer cells repair extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), identifying a potential target for new cancer therapies. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Thank you to Dr. Paul Mischel of @Stanford for yesterday’s IICD Seminar! 🧬 Dr. Mischel discussed how ecDNA drives cancer evolution, enabling tumor cells to rapidly adapt to changing environments and treatments. Watch the recording here: piped.video/ofXvrnCPnd0?si=wGuF…
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Paul Mischel giving a seminar

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RT @Columbia: Only a few spots left for @Cancer_dynamics' “Inferring Cancer Clonality" workshop on October 28. See details below to regist…
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Only a few spots left for our “Inferring Cancer Clonality Workshop” with @khanh_n_dinh on Oct. 28. See details below to register. ⤵️
Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics@Cancer_dynamics
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🧬 Registration is now open for our next From Theory to Practice IICD Workshop! Join @khanh_n_dinh on Oct. 28 for a hands-on workshop on inferring cancer clonality from DNA. Open to Columbia researchers. Limited to 15 participants. Register: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
Graphic for "From Theory to Practice: IICD Workshop Series" on October 28. This workshop's title is "Inferring Cancer Clonality from DNA."

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👋 Welcome to IICD, Dr. Wilson Gregory! Mentored by @bidumit, Wilson uses machine learning to study geometric structures in data, with applications to cell interactions during embryonic development.
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New member of IICD: Wilson Gregory, PhD

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🧬 New research in Nucleic Acids Research from IICD members and collaborators introduces Songbird, a computational tool that identifies copy number changes and estimates ploidy in single cells—helping researchers understand cancer evolution. Read more: bit.ly/4s4W82y
Figure illustrating Songbird, a flexible genome copy number caller. Figure by Benjamin Wesley, Artwork by Jennifer Jones

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The Data Science Institute at Columbia University@DataSciColumbia
Oct 9
DSI Member @bstockwell has received three new awards to support his innovative research at the intersection of cancer and immunity. Congrats to Prof. Stockwell! Read more via @cancer_dynamics: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
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📢 Join IICD on Oct. 21 at 2 PM ET for a special seminar with Harry Kabodha, co-founder of @var0sync: “From Cell States to Patients: Building Cancer Models That Survive Clinical Translation” 📍 Schermerhorn 603 Hall + Zoom 🔗 cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
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Thank you to Apoorva Singh and Cody Slater for presenting at yesterday’s IICD Monthly Research Meeting! 🧬 Apoorva discussed B cell homeostasis across the lifespan, while Cody presented on grounding RNA language models in structure and function.
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Cody Slater, PhD, presents during the October monthly research meeting at IICD.

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Congratulations to IICD Postdoctoral Research Scientist @shi_lingting on being named a 2026 @statnews Wunderkind! 🎉 Lingting uses single-cell and spatial genomics and computational methods to study cancer immunology. 🔗cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/… #STATWunderkind #CancerResearch
STAT Wunderkinds '26 award presented to Dr. Lingting Shi, a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with the IICD.

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Lingting Shi@shi_lingting
Oct 7
Very honored to be named a 2026 STAT Wunderkind 🧬✨ Grateful to my mentors @elhamazizi @joselmcfaline , collaborators, labmates, mentees, and everyone who has supported me along the way. Thank you @statnews for the thoughtful feature 🙏 ! 🔗👇
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Elham Azizi@elhamazizi
Oct 5
Check out our latest work: SHERLOCK🕵️ combines #RepresentationLearning of single-cell #perturbations with #CausalInference of their downstream transcriptional effects, supported by theoretical identifiability results 👇 lnkd.in/g34C6UpQ

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Lingting Shi@shi_lingting
Oct 5
🧬 What can we really learn from a perturbation data? Can #AI uncover how perturbations are related, what they affect downstream, how effects change with context—and what about combinatorial? Introducing SHERLOCK🕵️ led by @mingZedh, Josh Myers&I @joselmcfaline, @elhamazizi 🧵👇
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Lingting Shi@shi_lingting
Oct 5
🧬 What can we really learn from a perturbation data? Can #AI uncover how perturbations are related, what they affect downstream, how effects change with context—and what about combinatorial? Introducing SHERLOCK🕵️ led by @mingZedh, Josh Myers&I @joselmcfaline, @elhamazizi 🧵👇
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Khanh N. Dinh@khanh_n_dinh
Oct 5
Join me on October 28 to learn more about inferring cancer clonality from genomic data, clustering methods, and DECODE. Details below! ⤵️
Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics@Cancer_dynamics
Sep 28
🧬 Registration is now open for our next From Theory to Practice IICD Workshop! Join @khanh_n_dinh on Oct. 28 for a hands-on workshop on inferring cancer clonality from DNA. Open to Columbia researchers. Limited to 15 participants. Register: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
Graphic for "From Theory to Practice: IICD Workshop Series" on October 28. This workshop's title is "Inferring Cancer Clonality from DNA."

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