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DarwinHealth, a startup spun out of Dr. Andrea Califano's lab, was included in Fast Company's list of the 10 most innovative biotech companies of 2025. DarwinHealth uses its VIPER algorithm to take experimentally measurable data from a patient’s tumor, such as gene expression profiles, and make predictions about which existing drugs are most likely to be effective against the “Tumor CheckPoint” proteins driving their particular type of cancer.

As a Columbia Startup Fellow, Diandian Zhao is transforming industrial waste into sustainable cement.

Dr. Tingting Yang will present, "Best drugs for Best disease: small molecule drugs for the treatment of best vitelliform macular dystrophy."