Jose L. McFaline-Figueroa
@joselmcfaline
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Assistant Professor Columbia Biomedical Engineering | 🇵🇷 | he/him/his | @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social
Joined March 2016
🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – September 2025
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📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads! The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch 📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: https://t.co/yWT5OaG8LU
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We are highlighting the work of IICD scientists advancing our understanding of breast cancer. Their research, along with collaborative efforts across Columbia, continues to drive progress toward more precise and effective treatments: https://t.co/BobumzZVWm
#BreastCancerAwareness
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We’re hiring!📣 Exciting opportunity at the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia: Associate Research Scientist. Lead pooled CRISPR + Perturb-seq screens to close AI-identified knowledge gaps. Apply
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Please share! The Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science at Columbia are seeking an Associate Research Scientist to design & execute pooled CRISPR and Perturb-seq screens. Apply here:
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@ColumbiaPath @AYatesGroup @PostdocAffairs Meet Mathini Vaikunthan, a PhD student in @columbiabme in @joselmcfaline’s Lab. She shares her journey from embracing collaboration to celebrating women’s growing impact in science. 🔬 https://t.co/sgGiGIXI0j
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM cc: @ColumbiaGoBME
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Congratulations Ben!
I am extremely happy and grateful to share my promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure at Columbia University as of January 1, 2025.
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We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Vilcek Foundation Prizes, awarded to outstanding immigrant professionals in the arts and sciences. This year, we honored 14 prizewinners with a total of $950,000 in awards––our largest cohort yet! Read about our prizewinners
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Congratulations Elham!!! Incredibly well deserved!
I am deeply honored to receive this Prize that celebrates the contributions of immigrants in biomedical science! Thank you to all mentors who supported my journey and to my trailblazing lab members for their brilliant work!
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I am deeply honored to receive this Prize that celebrates the contributions of immigrants in biomedical science! Thank you to all mentors who supported my journey and to my trailblazing lab members for their brilliant work!
Congrats to IICD core faculty member @ElhamAzizi, recipient of the 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. The @Vilcek award celebrates the contributions of immigrant artists and scientists in the U.S. Read the @CUSEAS announcement: https://t.co/C8fJEieXdo
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So proud of @Dr_KatieM and @cam_park for showing the power of combining innovative #ML with what we call "Katie Intelligence" (our domain expert in the loop) for building impactful computational tools and applying them to obtain unexpected clinical insight!
In a paper published today in Science Immunology, a research team led by @columbiaBME @elhamazizi has identified a specific population of immune cells that play a critical role in the successful treatment of relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The work, in collaboration
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📣Friendly Reminder📣 Applications are open! The 2025 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. 📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2025: https://t.co/yWT5OaGGBs
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Applications are open! The 2025 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. 📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2025: https://t.co/yWT5OaG8LU
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Genomic tech dev is my favorite area of science, and today our paper describing our multiplex CRISPRa screening method to identify cell type specific regulatory elements is published!
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I am humbled to be included in the Atlas of Inspiring Hispanics/Latinx scientists and grateful for the mentors, collaborators, and lab members that inspire me every day. #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we present The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists. This resource showcases the scientific excellence of nearly 400 outstanding scientists. #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth
https://t.co/f9VAR8mJoK
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🎉 Congrats to Lingting Shi on receiving the 2024 Precision Oncology and Systems Biology program Postdoctoral Pilot Award! Her project, "Modeling Dynamic Tumor-Immune Interactions in the Tumor Microenvironment," will receive $50,000 over 2 years. Read: https://t.co/V9W97iCjnd
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Looking for an exciting, interdisciplinary research community with outstanding students, collaborative faculty and staff, and world class core facilities? Join us @CornellBME #BME👇
We're Hiring! Seeking a Tenure Track Faculty Position in Biomedical Engineering, @Cornell @CornellEng @CornellBME #BME. Learn more, apply: https://t.co/yxk6nULwKv
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Read about Mackenzie Sky's inspiring journey from dance to science through the IICD Summer Research Program. Her story highlights the power of confidence and mentorship in pursuing a new path. Read more: https://t.co/pOQm43xjdV
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The radial positioning of genomic loci, i.e. how far they are from the nuclear lamina has been associated with genome structure and function for several decades. But in genomics everything is correlated, e.g. radial positioning with genomic compartments with gene activity etc
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