# Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University

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## TL;DR

Columbia's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center in Upper Manhattan has held NCI designation since 1972; its scientists defined the genetic lesions of B-cell lymphoma, discovered and named ferroptosis in 2012, and spun out the systems biology company DarwinHealth, while Dawn Hershman leads SWOG's cancer care delivery research.

## Summary

NCI-designated since 1972, the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center is the cancer centre of Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian in Upper Manhattan. Riccardo Dalla-Favera defined BCL6 and the genetic lesions of B-cell lymphoma; Andrea Califano's systems biology of master regulators spun out DarwinHealth; Brent Stockwell discovered and named ferroptosis in 2012; Adolfo Ferrando dissected T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Dawn Hershman leads SWOG's cancer care delivery research from here, and Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, runs a leukaemia laboratory. Director Anil Rustgi is a GI cancer biologist.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: HICCC
- City: New York, NY, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://www.cancer.columbia.edu

## Sources

- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://www.cancer.columbia.edu

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- fronts: [AI & Computation](https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/)
- companies: [SWOG Cancer Research Network](https://onco.cc/companies/swog/)
- people: [Andrew B. Lassman](https://onco.cc/people/andrew-lassman/), [Dawn L. Hershman](https://onco.cc/people/dawn-hershman/), [Herbert Irving](https://onco.cc/people/herbert-irving/), [Michel Sadelain](https://onco.cc/people/michel-sadelain/)
- bottlenecks: [Tumour heterogeneity and clonal evolution](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-tumor-heterogeneity/)
- key papers: [Stromal elements act to restrain, rather than support, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-rhim-stroma-restrains-pancreatic-cancer-cell-2014/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)

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