In an effort to address this, scientists from the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health will share their newly developed technology platforms, which significantly reduce time needed for pathogen identification, at a week-long workshop they are hosting for scientists from around the globe whose laboratories are members of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surveillance Network. The workshop will be held at the Greene Lab from May 1 May 6, 2005.
Scientists representing institutions from the U.S., Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Canada, Scotland, Spain, South Africa, and China (see attached list of institutions), many of whom provided input and reagents during the technology design process, will attend the Greene Lab training course. China's unprecedented participation in a global meeting of this kind provides an extraordinary opportunity for continued technology sharing and coordinated surveillance.
The workshop will provide an overview as well as hands-on sessions in the Greene Lab where participants will work in groups with Columbia faculty members using newly developed technologies that allow rapid identification of known and unknown pathogens.
"We feel that sharing these new technologies is critical to global health and consistent with our vision for a school of public health," says W. Ian Lipkin, MD, the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professor of Epidemiology, professor of Neurology and Pathology a
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Contact: Randee Sacks Levine
rs363@columbia.edu
212-305-8044
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
3-May-2005