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Introducing Leah Greenspan
Assistant Professor Leah Greenspan (cell biology PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2018) joined the Department of Human Genetics faculty earlier this year with plans to expand her research on the cellular interactions that regulate wound healing—a process that slows as we age and fails all too often for people with diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and vascular and genetic disorders.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health's Jean Nachega, associate professor of epidemiology, who is advising African health authorities, says he does not expect the Ebola outbreak in the Congo to reach the CDC’s worst-case scenario but cautioned that the challenges remain “huge.”
Pitt Public Health researcher studies antibody responses following dengue infection
Sandra Bos, PhD, MPH, research assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Pitt Public Health, is helping reshape scientists’ understanding of immunity following dengue infection, with a new study revealing that different antibody populations change over time in ways researchers did not expect.