S2Ep1 - Covid-19 Vaccines

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021
Welcome to the second season of Computationally Yours! In this very first episode of 2021, your hosts Dr. Sabah Kadri and Arshi Arora kick-off with the latest updates in the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccines. We talk about different types of vaccines, the science behind them, and the amount of misinformation surrounding these immunizations. Tune into this brand new episode as Sabah talks about her own experience of getting vaccinated!

Show Notes

References

Zimmer C, Corum J, Wee S Coronavirus vaccine tracker. New York Times. 2020; https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

Hosts

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora is a Research Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a double Masters of Science degree in Computational Biology and Biostatistics from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University respectively. Her interests lie in creating elegant solutions to biological and clinical questions via simple yet compelling statistical models. She is a minimalist and follows an intense recycling waste regimen.

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Dr. Sabah Kadri has a background in Computer Engineering with a PhD in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kadri leads a team of bioinformaticians and scientists to design, develop and implement cloud-based computational infrastructure and containerized bioinformatics software in clinical diagnostic services for germline and somatic next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. She has experience building clinical diagnostics pipelines and systems for adult and pediatric diseases and continues to work on informatics solutions and research questions for translational ‘omics’ and biomedical research to promote personalized medicine.

listenhere26