Media and events

Talks, events and other achievements

2024


April 19th, 2024: International Webinar Talk for the IX Chagas and Malaria Disease Symposium for the Colombian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine on 04/19/24 with +300 attendees:

Rivera-Correa, Juan (2024, Apr 19) "La autoinmunidad durante enfermedades infecciosas tropicales" (Autoimmunity during tropical infectious diseases). 



Prof. Rivera-Correa was accepted to the NIH- Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program for the  Hypersensitivity, Autoimmune, and Immune-mediated [HAI] Diseases Study Section. 


Prof. Rivera-Correa got  selected (out of more than 500 applicants!) to serve on mBio’s 2024-2025 Early-Career Editorial Board (ECB; formerly known as the Junior Editorial Board)

mBio link 

2023

December 14th,  2023: City Tech Biomedical Informatics Bachelor's program Final presentations. 

In pictures (not in order): Prof. Khosravi, Prof. Zahran (City tech faculty), Fariha Choudhury, Mimi Zeng, and Sabrina James (Fall 2023 Rivera-Correa Lab students)

December 4th and 5th 2023: Conference: "I Simposio Internacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas Tropicales: “Desde la Ciencia hacia los Territorios” " at Universidad de Córdoba en Montería,  Montería, Córdoba, Colombia 

In pictures (not in order): Dra. Yasnot-Acosta, Dr. Tovar-Acero, Prof. Raciny-Alemán, Dr. Echeverry, Dra. Ariza, Dr. Olivera, Dr. Vera and Maria C Velasco-Pareja (Colombia) and Dra. Rojas (Costa Rica). 

November 7th,  2023:  International webinar: "Día contra la Malaria en las Américas  de la Sociedad Colombiana de Parasitología y Medicina Tropical (Day against Malaria in the Americas seminar by the Colombian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) 

February 27th,  2023:  Department seminar: "Autoantibodies during infection: Insights from malaria and beyond" at Hunter College, CUNY, NY, USA