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 (password will be provided to registrants).

**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Videos of select talks will be available on the main Symposium page.**

Symposium Agenda

8:30 am: Andrea Califano, PhD, Eric Greene, PhD, Andrew Marks, MD, Introductory Remarks

8:35 am: Ambassador Lawrence Butler, "Eurasian geopolitics, great power competition and the coronavirus crisis"

9:05 am: George Hripcsak, MD, MS, "COVID-19 patient characteristics and clinical course at CUIMC"

9:25 am: Benoît Gomis, MSc, "How the illicit drug trade is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis"

9:55 am: Daniel Griffin, MD, "COVID-19: a clinical perspective"

10:15 am: Charles Branas, PhD, "Hospital disaster surge capacity for COVID-19 in counties across the US"

10:35 am: Andrew Rundle, PhD, "Mapping and data visualization to combat COVID-19"

10:55 am: BREAK

11:05 am: Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, and Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, Biobank update

11:15 am: Jason McLellan, PhD, "Development of vaccines and nanobodies for SARS-CoV-2"

11:45 am: Florian Krammer, PhD, "Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2"

12:15 pm: Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD, "Research Administration in the age of COVID"

12:35 pm: Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD, "Health outcomes of newborns born to COVID-positive moms"

12:55 pm: Nir Uriel, MD, MSc, "Myocardial injury during COVID 19 and it's effect on patients outcome"

1:15 pm: Howie Wu, PhD (CRAC), Maneesha Aggarwal, PhD (CUIT) and Kriste Krstovski, PhD (Data Science Institute and Business School), "COVID-19 Hub – A central searchable database for COVID19 research at Columbia University"

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Videos and written summaries of select previous presentations are available on the main Symposium page.

Symposium Organizers:

Andrea Califano, PhD, Departments of Chemical and Systems Biology
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 Zuckerman Institute for web support and the Mailman School of Public Health for webinar support.