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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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 main Symposium page.**

Symposium Agenda

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

8:35 am: Brent R. Stockwell, PhD, "Discovery and development of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitors"

8:55 am: Itsik Pe'er, PhD, "Columbia University Effort to Predict Infections with Data (CUEPID)"

9:15 am: Kairong Xiao, PhD, "Saving lives versus saving livelihoods: can big data technology solve the pandemic dilemma?

9:35 am: CUIMC Autopsy Service Team

Jay Lefkowitch, MD, "Introduction & Overview of the CUIMC Autopsy Service"

Glen Markowitz, MD, "Who is getting autopsied? What can the Autopsy Service do for you? And what is happening to the kidneys?"

Anjali Saqi, MD, "Autopsy findings in the lungs in patients dying from COVID-19"

Charles Marboe, MD, "Autopsy findings in the heart in COVID-19"

Steve Lagana, MD, "Autopsy findings in the liver in COVID-19"

Hanina Hibshoosh, MD, "Tissue banking in COVID-19: the power of the Columbia University Biobank"

10:35 am: BREAK

10:45 am: Stephen Sturley, PhD, "Probing reistance to COVID-19 in heterozygous carriers of Lysosomal Storage Disorders"

11:05 am: Sahil Parikh, MD, "IMPROVE-COVID — design of the ICU based cluster randomized controlled trial"

11:25 am: Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, "Simulation and projection of COVID-19 in the US"

11:45 am: Andrew Gelman, PhD, "Some statistical issues in the fight against coronavirus"

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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.