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Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University

aka HICCC

Columbia's NCI comprehensive cancer centre, strong in lymphoma genetics, systems biology of cancer and the discovery of ferroptosis.

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.

Location
New York, NY, US
Type
cancer center · Columbia University
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#165 · 29 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 14 from 7 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Lymphoma and leukaemia genetics
  • Systems biology
  • Ferroptosis
  • Cancer care delivery (SWOG)

People

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Dawn L. Hershman
Group Co-Chair, SWOG Cancer Research Network; Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University
Breast cancerCancer care deliverySurvivorship

Breast oncologist who co-leads SWOG and studies adherence, toxicity, and how care is actually delivered.

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cancers

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Acute lymphoblastic leukaemiaDiffuse large B-cell lymphomaHR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancerProstate cancer

fronts

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AI & Computation

institutions

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SWOG Cancer Research Network

people

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Dawn L. Hershman

bottlenecks

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Tumour heterogeneity and clonal evolution