News in Brief Ground floor: TouroCOM-Harlem professor played role in Ebola research Kathleen DiCaprio, PhD, reacts to new research findings on the Ebola vaccine she helped create. Dec. 27, 2016Tuesday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics infectious diseases Kathleen DiCaprio, PhD, was a graduate student when she worked on a team that initially created a vaccine for the Ebola virus at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland. New research in The Lancet has found the vaccine to be successful in protecting people from contracting Ebola. Although Dr. DiCaprio was not involved in the latest research on the vaccine, the assistant professor of microbiology at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York, feels a sense of pride about the vaccine’s success and the fact that she assisted in the creation of a vaccine that may one day help people. “I went into science and infectious disease to create exactly something like this,” Dr. DiCaprio told the Times Union. Although she no longer conducts research, Dr. DiCaprio hopes to one day resume her work in infectious diseases research. To learn more, read the study in The Lancet or the full story in the Times Union. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleFor the win: 7 advocacy victories for the osteopathic profession in 2016 Next articleACGME program director discusses value of osteopathic recognition
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