Science Amplified
Science Amplified
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Giving a voice to scientists who have faced recent funding cuts. Hear about their work and why it matters.Artwork by Estefania Azevedo, PhD.
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The podcast covers critical topics related to scientific research and funding, featuring discussions on long COVID, the importance of basic research, and pandemic preparedness. Episodes include insights from scientists like Dr. Ya'el Courtney, who discusses the implications of funding cuts on vital research areas, and Dr. Paul Bieniasz, who addresses the transition of research focus during the pandemic from HIV to SARS-CoV-2, highlighting the relevance of diverse research endeavors.
Giving a voice to scientists who have faced recent funding cuts. Hear about their work and why it matters.
Artwork by Estefania Azevedo, PhD.
Today we talk to Dr. Rachel Marsh, Irving Philips Professor of Medical Psychology (in Child Psychology) at Columbia University Medical Center and the Director of MRI Research at New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Dr. Marsh specializes in fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) in children and in dyads (mother-baby pairs). She studies how psychiatric disorders develop during childhood, and how long-term health outcomes may be intergenerational. Today we talk about her pioneering research with Dr. Dani Dimitriu on mother-baby dyads who were exposed to COVID during pregnancy and their outcomes. This research has been halted due to current funding cuts aimed at both COVID-related research specifically and Columbia University funding in general. In this episode we discuss how these funding cuts impact the next generation of scientists most of all and why this research actually has very little to do with COVID itself, and much more to do with understanding how prenatal stress impacts children.
All that and more on this episode of Science Amplified.
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