Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19.
Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19. Researchers and clinicians at all career stages are welcome to educate themselves about Columbia’s efforts against this unprecedented threat to our society.
Please register here with your Columbia UNI.
**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Videos and written summaries of select talks are available on the COVID-19 Virtual Symposia Archive.
Please contact [email protected] with any questions or comments.
Symposium Agenda
8:30 am: Andrea Califano, PhD, Stephen Goff, PhD, Eric Greene, PhD, Andy Marks, MD, Introductory Remarks
8:35 am: Kathleen M. Capaccione, MD, PhD, Resident, Radiology & Mary M. Salvatore, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Radiology, CUIMC, "Pulmonary Embolism Rate in Patients with COVID-19"
8:55 am: Philip Greengard, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Gelman, Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University, "DNA-encoded Libraries and High Dimensional Data"
9:15 am: Robert Klitzman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, Director, Online and In-person Masters of Bioethics Programs, Columbia University, “Ethical Challenges Posed by Covid-19”
9:35 am: Sang Won Lee, Graduate Research Fellow, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory , Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering & Helen H. Lu, Ph.D., Percy K and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Columbia University, "AI-based Strategies for Rapid and Scalable Cell and Coronavirus Screening"
9:55 am: BREAK
10:05 am: Jaehyun Kim, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Laboratory of Dr. Chunhua Weng & Chunhua Weng, PhD, FACMI, Professor of Biomedical Informatics. Columbia University, "Data-Driven COVID-19 Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria Optimization"
10:25 am: Florence Hudson, Executive Director, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, COVID Information Commons
10:45 am: Muredach Reilly, MBBCh, MSCE, Professor of Medicine, Director, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Research, Director, Cardiometabolic Precision Medicine Program, CUIMC, "Irving Institute COVID-19 Research Initiatives and Services"
11:05 am: Arnab Chatterjee, PhD, Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Calibr at Scripps Research, "Leveraging the World’s Leading Drug Repurposing Collection Against COVID-19"
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Symposium Organizers:
Andrea Califano, PhD, Departments of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stephen Goff, PhD, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Eric Greene, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Andrew Marks, MD, Departments of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Molecular Physiology (in Medicine)
The organizers would like to thank volunteers from Columbia Researchers Against COVID-19 for their help in symposium logistics, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research for web support and the Mailman School of Public Health for webinar support.
About the Symposium Series
Sharing the latest in COVID-19 research at Columbia
Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19. Researchers and clinicians at all career stages are welcome to educate themselves about Columbia’s efforts against this unprecedented threat to our society.
Symposia are held bi-weekly on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.
Due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Select videos from the most recent symposium, and summaries of all previous symposia, are available below. Videos of previous symposia are available to watch on YouTube.
Please contact [email protected] with any questions or comments.