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Recent measles outbreaks worldwide highlight the urgency of tracking and countering vaccine hesitancy to ensure the continued success of immunization programs.
Dena B. Dubal is a physician–scientist and the endowed chair in aging and neurodegenerative disease in the neurology department at the University of California, San Francisco. She has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and American Federation for Aging Research.
Vijay Sankaran is a practicing pediatric hematologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His laboratory uses insights from human genetics to study blood cell production in health and disease.
Karishma Kaushik’s research at University of Pune focuses on chronic wound infections, from probing the complex wound infection microenvironment to enabling personalized therapeutic approaches. She is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, a program funded by the Government of India to support the research of early-career scientists and their return to the country from abroad.
Takanori Takebe is an assistant professor at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. His research aims to develop mini organ technologies derived from human stem cells and use those in patients with rare congenital metabolic disorders.
The National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project is coming to a close, offering an opportunity to reflect on its legacy and the urgent need to understand the microbiome of underrepresented populations.