{"id":72253,"date":"2020-03-23T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=72253"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:12:32","slug":"3-23-2020-email-from-gms-associate-provost-to-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2020\/03\/23\/3-23-2020-email-from-gms-associate-provost-to-phds\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/23\/2020 Email From GMS Associate Provost (to PhDs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To:\u00a0 GMS PhD Students
\nFrom:\u00a0 Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, \u00a0GMS Associate Provost and Associate Dean ad interim
\n<\/em>Date:\u00a0 March 23, 2020
\nRE:\u00a0 Request for Volunteers<\/p>\n

Scientists and students in the CReM, BU\/BMC Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Department and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have worked collaboratively to get testing for Covid-19 online at the hospital.\u00a0 The swabs with patient samples are placed in transport media for delivery to the hospital lab for testing.\u00a0 Some supplies to make the transport media are in short supply or have delayed delivery dates due to supply problems with vendors.\u00a0 To address this supply problem, we are making large volumes of transport media in-house which needs to be processed for hospital use.<\/p>\n

What we need:<\/strong>\u00a0 Students who have prior experience with tissue culture methods and aseptic techniques, and strong attention to detail.\u00a0 We need at least 20 volunteers to work at 5 tissue culture stations with 2 people per station.\u00a0\u00a0 We are thinking 4 hour shifts for each team.\u00a0 We will schedule days\/times as permitted by individuals\u2019 schedules.<\/p>\n

What work will be done:<\/strong>\u00a0 Aliquoting transport media into conical tubes under aseptic conditions, labeling tubes, contributing to the overall process\/operations of providing transport media for hospital use.\u00a0 At no time will students be exposed to patient samples.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Where\/When:<\/strong>\u00a0 This work will be done on the 4th<\/sup> floor of the 670 Albany Street building (behind the building with City Convenience) in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.\u00a0 We want to get students briefed and onboard as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

To Volunteer:<\/strong>\u00a0 By Wednesday 3\/25, please send the following to Kimberly Arena (krarena@bu.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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  1. Your name and a brief description of your tissue culture\/aseptic technique experience to Kimberly Arena (krarena@bu.edu<\/a>).\u00a0 Example:\u00a0 I was a laboratory technician for 2 years at the University of Buffalo, doing tissue culture with cancer cell lines<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. Written permission from your research PI (e.g., email) that it is OK for you to take this time from your other scholarship responsibilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can volunteer for as much as your schedule and other responsibilities permit.\u00a0 At this time, we cannot provide funding beyond your current stipend.\u00a0 I note that the residual samples from the clinical lab will be archived for research purposes, so you will be contributing indirectly to the overall research mission of BU and GMS.\u00a0 I also note that this will make for a very interesting addition to your CV.<\/p>\n

    With warm regards,
    \nDr. S-K<\/p>\n

    Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD
    \nAssociate Provost ad interim
    \n<\/em>Graduate Medical Sciences
    \nMake a Difference<\/em> at     GMS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      To:\u00a0 GMS PhD Students From:\u00a0 Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, \u00a0GMS Associate Provost and Associate Dean ad interim Date:\u00a0 March 23, 2020 RE:\u00a0 Request for Volunteers Scientists and students in the CReM, BU\/BMC Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Department and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have worked collaboratively to get testing for Covid-19 online at the hospital.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16806,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72253\/revisions\/72256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}