So every 2-3 months our PIs (principal
investigators, people who dole out the ever-scarcer funding: Caryn Bern of UCSF and Bob Gilman of Johns Hopkins) come down to help
us continually fine-tune our research projects, and mainly to make sure we haven’t
wreaked havoc. Bob and Caryn are like the old married couple who fight over academics. Bob is the idea guy (most of which are crazy/ingenious/both) and Caryn then reins him in, tossing the bad ideas and then fine tuning the good ideas into brilliant science. They study everything
from children’s diarrhea to tuberculosis to neurocystercercosis- so if you know
any medical professional looking to come down to South America, please let me
know!
They came down for the last time during our stay,
and luckily we had a great crew to great them.
Jackie and I started as the only gringas (foreigners), although others
had come before us. But now there are
tons of friends! So we celebrated Bob’s
birthday, and had a wonderful time.
We’ll be forever indebted for Bob and Caryn for welcoming us on board,
funding the research (even though Bolivia is cheap, running a project sure adds
up!), and being downright fantastic mentors and astounding researchers. And the whole team for being executively
excellent : )
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| Everyone at our place! (Jeong, Caryn, Bob, Nicole, Jillian, Lulu, Toria) |
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| the best yardstick of teamwork- not so much working to accomplish international research but rather solving a human knot |
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| Malasa's home-made apple pie! with a Bolivian sparkler |
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| Caryn, looking either really skeptical about research methods... or excited about that pie! |
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| Bob and Jeong, right after Jeong went out to talk to prostitutes about free HIV testing and condoms! |
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