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Before COVID-19, tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease. Here’s one scientist's journey to the discovery of a new tool to fight TB, and of her own potential.
Mireille Kamariza, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University, describes her research on a new reagent that could increase the speed, accuracy, and availability of tuberculosis treatment.
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Q&A with Professor Mireille Kamariza
Conversation with Professor Mireille Kamariza about her views and research interests.
Read the article at UCLA’s Samueli School of Engineering website.
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Q&A: Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza can’t wait to see what’s next
The newly minted UCLA professor is dedicated to improving testing for tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
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The Yearbook: 11 early-career researchers to watch
Up-and-coming researchers who are blazing a trail in their respective fields share what they are most excited about and where their research going in the next 5 years.
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Talented Twelve
This diagnostics designer is fashioning a faster, cheaper way to detect tuberculosis. Mireille Kamariza wants to make a difference in neglected diseases around the world. She developed a quick and cheap test for tuberculosis (TB) while still in graduate school.
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In her bid to end TB, MK is shattering stereotypes about scientists
Before COVID-19, tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease. This is one scientist's journey to the discovery both of a new tool to fight TB, and of her own potential.
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The star chemist
How Mireille Kamariza pursued the fantastical to solve a deadly health problem. Growing up in Bujumbura, Burundi, Mireille Kamariza didn’t know any astronomers, or any scientists at all for that matter. But she adored planets anyway.
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Mireille Kamariza’s Personal Story of Discovery
“I’m always driven by big problems that many people aren’t really looking into,” Kamariza says. She says that focusing on questions that others don’t see the value in could give her the edge professionally as she works to improve global health.
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A Faster, Cheaper TB Test
Scientific experiments rarely work the first time, and this one seemed to stand little chance at all. “It was a crazy idea,” says Kamariza. Yet in fall 2015, she peered into the microscope and saw “squiggly green things” — a model for tuberculosis bacteria set aglow with a just-created chemical dye.
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Talking Improved TB Testing with Mireille Kamariza
Stanford doctoral candidate Mireille Kamariza helped make headlines last year, joining her adviser (and ACS Central Science Editor-in-Chief) Carolyn Bertozzi to present on a new test for diagnosing tuberculosis.
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They Never Told Her That Girls Could Become Scientists
27-year-old Kamariza and her adviser unveiled a potential breakthrough in fighting TB: a way to detect the culprit bacteria faster and more accurately. But for Kamariza, the fight against TB is not just about scientific progress and prestige. It's personal.
Read the story at NPR’s Goats & Soda.