Archived Hokie Talk: Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 Response: Science and Engineering in Service to Community Health
Archived Hokie Talk: Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 Response: Science and Engineering in Service to Community Health
Date: Sept. 30, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
“Thank you for the invitation for the program this evening . It was very well done. I was surprised when my chat room comment to the panelists – on the great success across disciplines and the need to share with students as an example of not working in silos – was used to close the meeting. One of the greatest challenges a leader faces is connecting the dots across internal and external entities and the team clearly nailed it!”
– Mark Salyer '81, MBA, CPA
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Moderated by
- Michael Friedlander, vice president for health sciences and technology and executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Panelists include
- Carla Finkielstein, associate professor of biological sciences at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and College of Science and director of the Virginia Tech Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
- Harald Sontheimer, professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and College of Science and director of the Center for Glial Biology in Health, Disease, and Cancer
- Chris Williams, College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering