Lee C. Bollinger

Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University, has designated the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative a top priority for the University. Together with Professor Tom Maniatis, the Director of the Columbia Initiative, they are implementing a strategic plan aimed at placing Columbia University at the forefront of the international effort to revolutionize health care and bring scholarship to all aspects of precision medicine.  The university-wide precision medicine task force includes scholars from across our campuses. Strategic investments in intellectual talent and infrastructure, in combination with the extraordinary breadth and depth of the Columbia University academic enterprise will place Columbia University in an outstanding position to take a leading role in the evolution, growth and delivery of precision medicine. This will involve close collaboration and partnership with the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital.