Dr. Thomas Templeton shows graduate students a culture of human blood infected with malaria parasites. The graduate students are Jaggi Jaspreet, Nicole Draghi, Matthew Dunn, Leszek Lisowski and Lynn Kamen.
Researchers in Weill Cornell's Department of Microbiology and Immunology invited first- and second-year students in the Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program to a "pizza party" in their laboratories on Nov. 16 to encourage the students to consider careers in infectious disease research.
Five principal investigators—Kirk Deitsch, Sabine Ehrt, Luis Quadri, Thomas Templeton and Dirk Schnappinger—engaged the students in discussions of their current research related to the study of TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases. "Our goal is to have the three major persistent infectious diseases in the world today—HIV, TB and malaria—stand alongside heart disease and cancer as pillars of health research at Weill Cornell," said Dr. Templeton. Hosting a pizza party in their laboratories on the 7th floor of the Whitney Pavilion Research Laboratories is one way Dr. Templeton and his colleagues are spreading the word among graduate students.
Dr. Luis Quadri talks about his research on tuberculosis with first-year graduate student Tia Maiolatesi.