“We don't yet have a vaccine and we don't have approved drugs for prevention of disease or treatment of disease. So all we have is isolation,” said Dr. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University.
As the virus enters lung cells, it starts to replicate, destroying the cells, explains Dr. Yoko Furuya, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Kenrick Cato’s love of health care came from his mother, a retired nurse, but the idea of becoming a nurse himself didn’t dawn on this ex-Army officer until a friend made the suggestion.
While pursuing her education as a geneticist, Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH, witnessed the early days of the AIDS epidemic and changed fields to help address it.
Breast cancer epidemiologist Jasmine McDonald, PhD, originally set out to become a laboratory researcher, but a chance conversation on a bus led her to switch fields.
Lorna Dove, medical director for the liver transplant center at CUIMC, was drawn to her field partly because of the close relationships she is able to develop with her patients.
February is Black History Month, and we are celebrating African American physicians, dentists, nurses, and researchers at CUIMC who are helping to improve the health of the nation.
While new drugs are being developed to thwart P. falciparum, some researchers are busy developing tools to predict what mutations are likely to occur next in the parasite’s genome.
