Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine
Columbia University
Dr. Benjamin Izar is the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Human Immune Monitoring Core (HIMC). Dr. Izar received his MD/PhD at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where he was graduated summa cum laude. He completed his internal medicine residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and medical oncology training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by his first faculty position at Danna-Farber Cancer Institute. He completed post-doctoral research training in cancer immunology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is a physician-scientist with a particular focus on understanding metastasis to the brain and cancer immune evasion. Dr. Izar and his team have led several landmark studies using single-cell genomics that have been published in Nature, Cell, and Science, most recently a study resolving brain metastases in melanoma and lung cancer.
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Dissecting and Overcoming Cancer Immune Evasion Due to Defects in the CD58-CD2 Axis
Friday, June 27, 2025
2:40pm - 3:05pm East Coast USA Time
