WELCOME

If you are interested in the Columbia College W3995 course

called Crossroads in Bioethics offered in Spring of 2008

(formerly called Frontiers in Bioethics) Click here. If you are interested in E4010 course called Ethics for Biomedical Engineers click here.

If you are a 2008 BIOCEP participant- click  BIOCEP.org.

 December 2007

Articles for the Columbia University Journal of Bioethics must be submitted in Word Format by April 30, 2008. Op Ed pieces should be less than 1000 words and should examine a current bioethical dilemma. Original review articles should be less than 4000 words and should focus how emerging biotechnologies elicits bioethical issues. Click 2007 to view 2006  to view  and 2005 to view and 2004 to view.

 If you are interested in BIOCEP, a cross-cultural program on bioethics in Bangkok, Thailand, click below. To see the article in New York Times online click here

Application form for BIOCEP-click tile button above or here.

 Research Programs in the Laboratory

Yongmei Li, A. Karlin, J.D. Loike, and S.C. Silverstein. "A critical concentration of neutrophils is required for efficient bacterial killing in fibrin gels." J Exp Med, 200:613-622, 2004.

Loike, J.D., D.Y. Shabtai, R. Neuhut, S. Malitzky, E. Lu, J. Husemann, I. J. Goldberg, and S.C. Silverstein. "Statin inhibition of Fc-receptor mediated phagocytosis by macrophages is modulated by cell activation and cholesterol." Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 24:2051-2057,2004.

Tallóczy, Z., Martinez, J., Joset, D., Ray, Y., Gácser, A., Toussi, S., Mizushim, B., Nosanchuk, J., Goldstein, H., Loike, J.D. Sulzer, D., Santambrogio, L. “Methamphetamine Inhibits Antigen Phagocytosis, Processing and Intracellular Killing of AIDS-Related Pathogens" (PLOS Pathogen, 2008 -In press)

Fischbach, R.L., Loike, J.D. ^"Postmortem Fatherhood: Life After Life" Lancet (2008-In press)

Budhu, S., Loike, J.D., Karlin, A., Constantinescu+, A., Loike, A., Pandolfi, A., Clynes, R., and Silverstein, S.C., The concentration of antigen-specific CD8+ cytotoxic lymphocytes determines their efficiency in killing B16 mouse melanoma cells in collagen/fibrin gels. (Manuscript in preparation).

Yongmei Li, Loike, J.D., Ray, Y.S., Frenete,, P.S., and S.C. Silverstein. Neutrophil Chemotaxis Through, and Killing of S. epidermidis in Fibrin Gels are b2-integrin-independent Processes. (manuscript in preparation).