Sarah Schlesinger: Experimental Treatments
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🗓️ 5 June 2014
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Immunologist Sarah Schlesinger must try to save her mentor's life with his own work in cellular immunity. Sarah J. Schlesinger MD is a clinical investigator and immunologist at The Rockefeller University who has spent more than 20 years working in the field of cellular immunity, including as clinical director of the laboratory led by the late Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. She is currently Senior Attending Physician and Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation at the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology at Rockefeller. Prior to joining the University, Dr. Schlesinger was a scientist at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in New York City. From 1996 to 2002, Dr. Schlesinger was a Research Physician/Pathologist at the Division of Retrovirology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, having previously served, from 1994 to 2002, as Staff Pathologist at the Armed Force Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. Dr. Schlesinger trained in Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and began her career in pathology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and hospitals in New York including Buffalo General, Hospital New York and the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Everything... Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring your true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.6 | This week's stories from Sarah Schlesinger as part of our four-year anniversary celebration. |
| 0:35.8 | The story was recorded in May 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:48.8 | Hi. |
| 0:50.1 | So 37 years ago, when I was 16, I came through the gates of the Rockefeller University, |
| 0:56.9 | where I work every day now for the very first time. |
| 1:00.1 | I had never heard of the place, even though it had been on 66th Street, New York Avenue, |
| 1:04.6 | and I'd probably walk by it more times than I could have counted, |
| 1:07.5 | but I never knew what was behind those gates. |
| 1:10.3 | My high school biology teacher had given me tickets to what were called at the time, |
| 1:15.9 | the Christmas lectures. |
| 1:17.1 | They're now called the holiday lectures, which are these amazing lectures by world-class scientists, |
| 1:23.4 | many of whom were Nobel laureates for high school students. |
| 1:26.5 | And I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. Christian Dadoeuf, |
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