TY - JOUR
T1 - The COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Reflections of Science, Person, and Challenge in Academic Research Settings
AU - Bidlack, Jean M.
AU - Chang, Sulie L.
AU - Fitting, Sylvia
AU - Gendelman, Howard E.
AU - Gorantla, Santhi
AU - Kumar, Santosh
AU - Marcondes, Maria Cecilia Garibaldi
AU - Meigs, Douglas D.
AU - Melendez, Loyda M.
AU - Sariyer, Ilker K.
AU - Yelamanchili, Sowmya
N1 - Funding Information:
The virtual workshop, in part, was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA047178 to S Kumar and DA046258 to SL Chang). HE Gendelman and the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience provided funding for transcriptions from the Bureau of Sociological Research and transcript editing by DD Meigs.
Funding Information:
The University of Nebraska Medical Center hosted the Zoom webinar for the virtual workshop. Transcription support was provided by the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Funding Information:
Dr. Santosh Kumar: Thank you very much, Dr. Joseph. Thank you, everyone. We have had fantastic science presentations. I thought that maybe we should have some change and talk about well-being — what we have done and what we could do with the challenges of a pandemic. Discussions on well-being and reflections of others’ experiences in the panel will follow my talk. My lab has done some work related to COVID-19. Our group published a review paper on repurposing antiviral drugs for COVID-19 (Kumar et al. ), and I’ve written some newspaper columns in the local newspaper (Kumar, ; ). But this talk today will be on intervention and improved well-being of basic science researchers during the COVID-19 era. There were nine individuals in my laboratory working through the pandemic. We were doing Zoom meetings all the time with no live work at all. So, I really appreciate all our members and all the participants in this study, and funding support from multiple sources — NIH grant DA047178 and UTHSC’s Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Solutions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - In spring of 2021, the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP) organized a virtual workshop on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The daylong event’s fourth and final symposium, “Well-being and reflections,” offered a glimpse at the pandemic’s impact on the lives of our scientists and educators. This manuscript includes a brief summary of the symposium, a transcription of our incoming president Dr. Santosh Kumar’s lecture, titled “Intervention and improved well-being of basic science researchers during the COVID-19 era: a case study,” and the panel discussion that followed, “Reflection and sharing,” featuring Drs. Jean M. Bidlack, Sylvia Fitting, Santhi Gorantla, Maria Cecilia G. Marcondes, Loyda M. Melendez, and Ilker K. Sariyer. The conclusion of this manuscript includes comments from SNIP’s president Dr. Sulie L. Chang and our Chief Editor, Dr. Howard E. Gendelman. Drs. Sowmya Yelamanchili and Jeymohan Joseph co-chaired the symposium. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - In spring of 2021, the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP) organized a virtual workshop on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The daylong event’s fourth and final symposium, “Well-being and reflections,” offered a glimpse at the pandemic’s impact on the lives of our scientists and educators. This manuscript includes a brief summary of the symposium, a transcription of our incoming president Dr. Santosh Kumar’s lecture, titled “Intervention and improved well-being of basic science researchers during the COVID-19 era: a case study,” and the panel discussion that followed, “Reflection and sharing,” featuring Drs. Jean M. Bidlack, Sylvia Fitting, Santhi Gorantla, Maria Cecilia G. Marcondes, Loyda M. Melendez, and Ilker K. Sariyer. The conclusion of this manuscript includes comments from SNIP’s president Dr. Sulie L. Chang and our Chief Editor, Dr. Howard E. Gendelman. Drs. Sowmya Yelamanchili and Jeymohan Joseph co-chaired the symposium. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
KW - COVID-19
KW - Diversity, equity, and inclusion
KW - Early-career investigators
KW - Neuroimmune pharmacology
KW - Oral history
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - Therapeutics
KW - Vaccines
KW - Well-being
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U2 - 10.1007/s11481-021-10035-2
DO - 10.1007/s11481-021-10035-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 34826061
AN - SCOPUS:85119973802
VL - 16
SP - 706
EP - 717
JO - Journal of NeuroImmune Pharmacology
JF - Journal of NeuroImmune Pharmacology
SN - 1557-1890
IS - 4
ER -