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Cancer scientist has a plan to improve education, health care in his native Afghanistan

Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD (photo by Jim Howe)

Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD (photo by Jim Howe)

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.

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