Cancer scientist has a plan to improve education, health care in his native Afghanistan
Hematologist Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD, created a nonprofit organization, Education for Afghan Children, that will build elementary schools and health care facilities in his native Afghanistan. Karimi tells about his upbringing and time spent in a refugee camp before studying science and medicine. Today he's a microbiologist and immunologist at Upstate, studying blood cancers and ways to improve bone marrow transplants.