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Clinical trials and research at Columbia Univ New York Morningside
As of November 12, 2026, Find a Trial lists 184 NIH-funded research projects at this institution, with $89.5 million in listed awards. Every study is explained in plain English. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NIH RePORTER, updated November 12, 2026.
- 184NIH research projects
NIH-funded research (newest 40 of 184)
Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.
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Anga Center for Community Health and Well-being
A community-focused program from Columbia University aims to strengthen mental health and resilience in East Africa and other at-risk communities by partnering with local centers and using evidence-based approaches.
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Anga Center for Community Health and Well-being: building resilience to extreme weather in Africa and beyond
A program to help communities cope with the mental health effects of extreme weather by partnering with African regions and local centers to develop practical, evidence-based support.
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A crowdsourced, survivor-led approach to boost HIV/STI/HCV testing and overdose-prevention service use for sex trafficking survivors in NYC
A NYC-based study tests a survivor-driven digital messaging approach and at-home tests to help sex trafficking survivors increase HIV/STI/HCV testing and use overdose-prevention resources.
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How RNA binding proteins shape when and how genes are used
A research project at Columbia aims to map how RNA binding proteins interact with RNAs to control gene activity, with potential insights for diseases involving gene regulation.
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Crowdsourced digital messaging to boost syphilis and HIV testing for women in NYC and rural Alabama
A community-driven project tests whether crowdsourced digital messages can encourage women, especially women of color and Native American women, to get syphilis, HIV, and STI tests.
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Infant brain stiffness imaging using a sleep-friendly MR elastography framework
A new MRI-based method called NeoWave aims to map how young infant brains develop by measuring tissue stiffness during natural sleep.
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Characterization and Rehabilitation of Jaw Movement with a Wearable 4-DOF Robotic Exoskeleton
A wearable robotic jaw exoskeleton will measure jaw motion and provide guided, multi-directional jaw forces to help people recovering from trismus.
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Anga Center Capacity Building Core for health and extreme weather research
A grant to build capacity for research and collaboration to understand and address health risks from extreme weather in East Africa and parts of the U.S.
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Anga Center Community Collaborative Core
A community-focused program in Africa and the United States partners with local neighborhoods and health centers to guide EW-related health research with input from community members.
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Early warning tools and mental health in East Africa linked to extreme weather
This grant supports using local weather warnings to help communities in East Africa protect mental well-being during extreme weather events.
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Anga Center Administrative Core: Leading East Africa–U.S. health collaboration
This grant supports a central hub at Columbia University to guide and manage a partnership between East Africa and the United States focused on community health, extreme weather impacts, and resilience.
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Anga Center for Community Health and Well-being: A center to boost mental health resilience in Africa and beyond
A center-led program will partner with communities in East Africa to develop ways to keep people mentally healthier after extreme weather.
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Protecting East African children and families from harm caused by extreme heat and drought
Working with East African communities to find practical ways to reduce health harms from heatwaves and drought for children and families.
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Anga Center for community health and well-being in East Africa
Working with East African communities, researchers will develop community-led ways to protect children and families from heatwaves, droughts, and other extreme weather.
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Rethinking how dendrites shape neuron signals
This project studies how dendrites actively influence brain signals in living animals to understand better how neurons process information.
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Using hybrid zones to understand how genes shape behavior and species differences
This NIH grant explores how natural gene mixing in hybrid zones can reveal how genetics influence behavior and the formation of new species.
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WINGS+++: A brief, patient-friendly program to link IPV/PTSD care with opioid treatment for women
A short, phone-and-app based program helps women with opioid use disorders who experience intimate partner violence and PTSD connect to the right services and support.
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Harnessing Platelet-Endothelial Interactions to Deliver Exosomes
Aims to improve delivery of therapeutic exosomes to injured heart and lung tissue using platelet-endothelial interactions in people with acute lung injury or myocardial injury.
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Crowdsourced digital messages to boost HIV/STI/HCV testing and overdose-prevention kit use for survivors of sex trafficking in NYC
A crowdsourced digital messaging approach is being tested to help survivors of sex trafficking in New York City get more HIV/STI/HCV testing and use overdose-prevention kits.
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Advanced light-based imaging to map complex biology
A new imaging platform will let researchers see many different molecules and cells at once, with high detail, to better understand how biological systems work.
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Understanding how a special spleen B cell protects us from infections as we age
A long-term research project will study a specific type of immune cell in the spleen to understand how it protects adults from blood-borne infections and how aging changes its behavior.
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Helping South African teens build strong emotional control
Researchers are learning how supportive experiences help adolescents in Cape Town develop healthy emotional control and brain resilience.
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Long Noncoding RNA Therapy for Precision Cardiac Repair
A heart-disease focused project uses tiny lipid particles to deliver guiding RNA that could reduce scarring after heart injury.
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How ABC Transporters Move Substances Using ATP
This project studies how ABC transporters move molecules through cell membranes using ATP to power the process.
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Increasing HIV testing and access to PrEP and PEP
This project offers tools and community support to help people at higher risk get tested for HIV more often and start prevention medicines like PrEP or PEP.
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Strengthening community health and preparedness for extreme weather in East Africa
This project partners with people in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to build local health systems and plans that help communities stay healthy during droughts, floods, and heatwaves.
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Early warning systems for extreme weather to protect mental health in East African communities
Develops and pilots localized early warning systems to help people in climate-vulnerable East African communities reduce the mental health harms of extreme weather.
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Microfluidic prep to capture ultrafast molecular changes in biology
A new microfluidic system will quickly prepare samples for time-resolved cryo-EM to capture very fast molecular events related to human biology.
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Harnessing friendly probiotic particles to rebalance the immune system
A study aims to use tiny particles from good bacteria to gently steer the immune system in people with autoimmune diseases or immune-related conditions.
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Emotional Arousal and Its Brain-Behavior Links During Development
A development-focused project will create a simple looming auditory cue to measure how young people’s bodies and minds respond to arousal and how this relates to anxiety, depression, and irritability.
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How tissues shape themselves during development
Scientists study how living tissues take on their proper shapes during development by looking at how groups of cells move and coordinate their activities.
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Enhancing brain-behavior analysis tools for mice using advanced pose and action tools
A NIH-funded project will upgrade a mouse behavior analysis pipeline to use advanced pose estimation and action segmentation, helping researchers better understand how internal states affect decisions.
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Social touch and memory in naked mole-rats and what it means for human social disorders
A large NIH grant is studying how touch helps social animals remember colony members, with potential clues for autism, depression, and other social difficulties in people.
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How RNA binding proteins control how genes are expressed
This grant aims to map how RNA binding proteins influence when and how genes are turned on or off in disease, helping us understand post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Discovering how tissue bending is controlled in vertebrates
A small-scale NIH grant explores how tissues bend and form loops during early development, using bird embryos to uncover molecular cues that shape organs.
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Pericardial mRNA Therapy to Help Hearts Recover After Heart Attacks
A new drug given into the space around the heart aims to reduce inflammation after a heart attack and improve heart healing in people and in animal models that mirror human disease.
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How Neurons Keep Mitochondria Working Together Inside Brain Cells
This grant studies how brain cells move and arrange their energy factories (mitochondria) inside living organisms to understand brain health and diseases like Alzheimer's.
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Mechanisms of How Histone Marks Are Propagated
A scientific team is studying how chemical tweaks to histone proteins control gene activity and are passed on when cells divide, using yeast as a model to understand similar processes in humans.
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Understanding how a brain chemical might influence mom and dad’s caring for babies
A research grant is exploring how a hormone-like brain chemical called allopregnanolone and related substances influence parental care in animals, with potential clues for supporting families.
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Programmable encapsulation systems to improve delivery of therapeutic bacteria
Aims to help people with cancer by using engineered probiotic bacteria that home to tumors and release therapy directly where it’s needed.
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