Benjamin Izar is the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Izar studies interactions between cancer cells and cells of the tumor-microenvironment, and how these define metastatic niches, response and resistance to cancer immunotherapies. He has received multiple national awards, including a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute K08 Award and the Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists, and he was selected as a NextGen Star of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2020, he was named as a Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Scholar and a Velocity Fellow by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
November 2025
Benjamin Izar is the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Izar studies interactions between cancer cells and cells of the tumor-microenvironment, and how these define metastatic niches, response and resistance to cancer immunotherapies. He has received multiple national awards, including a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute K08 Award and the Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists, and he was selected as a NextGen Star of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2020, he was named as a Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Scholar and a Velocity Fellow by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
November 2025