Sidereal Therapeutics, a startup spun out of Dr. Jonathan Barasch's lab, won a $250K XSeed Award. Sidereal is developing first-in-class therapeutics for acute kidney injury and iron-mediated disorders.
XL Batteries uses patented chemistry from the lab of Dr. Colin P. Nuckolls.
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."
Dr. Haiqiu Yang received third place in the 2025 SPIE Startup Challenge, a pitch competition championing photonics innovation in healthcare and deep tech. Her company, OptiCardio, is commercializing technology from Dr. Christine Hendon's lab at Columbia.
Ioannis (John) Kymissis, W. Ian Lipkin, and Konstantin Petrukhin will be inducted as NAI Fellows at the NAI 14th Annual Meeting on June 26, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Carbontech Development Initiative is pleased to announce awards of over $3 million to research and commercialization teams working to develop and scale critical negative emissions technologies.
CTV has partnered with Beiersdorf to launch the Beiersdorf & Columbia Skin Science Collaboration focused on identifying and supporting projects with the objective of developing novel in vitro skin models, validating dermatological targets, and identifying dermato-cosmetic compounds for inclusion in Beiersdorf’s over-the-counter brands.
Heirloom, which uses technology developed by Columbia's Dr. Peter Kelemen, closed a $150M Series B round.
MBF Bioscience announced the launch of SLICE, invented by Columbia's Dr. Raju Tomer and Dr. Lars Dietrich, at the Society for Neuroscience meeting. SLICE is a paradigm shift in light-sheet microscopy that combines high performance with unprecedented affordability and a compact device footprint.
A Columbia Engineering startup nabs $44M to tackle energy and scalability challenges with a new platform that significantly boosts AI data performance and efficiency.