Irving Institute Announces 2015 Irving Scholars

Recognizing the critical importance of training young clinical investigators, Herbert and Florence Irving earmarked a major portion of the Irving Endowment for the Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Awards, usually referred to as the Irving Scholars. The program is open to applicants from all clinical departments at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Scholars are selected on the basis of research proposals that reflect independent, well-developed scientific initiative in clinical investigation. These three-year awards provide substantial salary support allowing the Scholar more time for clinical investigation. 

The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, together with Dean Lee Goldman, is pleased to announce the 2015-2018 Irving Scholars awardees:

Ali Jabbari, MD, PhD
"Longitudinal T Cell Receptor Repertoire Profiling in Patients with Alopecia Areata Treated with JAK Inhibitors"
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Fay Kastrinos, MD, MPH
"Development and Validation of a Genetic Risk Assessment Model for the Identification of Individuals with a Hereditary Susceptibility to Pancreatic Cancer"
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine

Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, MS
"Precision Genomics in Solid Organ Transplantation"
Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine

Joanna E. Steinglass, MD
"Neural Targets in Anorexia Nervosa: What Drives Food Choice?"
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD
"Systems Pharmacology to Predict Adverse Drug Reactions"
Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics