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Laeth George, MS2

Laeth George is a first-year medical student at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. He graduated from The University of Arizona in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology. He is passionate about spreading scientific knowledge and ideas to others. More specifically, Laeth is interested in advances in understanding disease pathology and innovations in medical therapies. If you have comments, questions, or recommendations, please feel free to contact him at laethgeorge[at]email.arizona.edu.

Business/Policy March 8, 2016

NIH Receives a Funding Boon

Laeth George, MS2
NIH_Clinical_Research_Center_aerial In today’s political climate, discord is common and accords drastically less so. But in an increasingly rare show of bipartisanship, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has recently received a $2 billion increase in federal funding [1]....
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Science September 8, 2015

Medjacking: Hacking Medical Devices

Laeth George, MS2
From smartphones to thermostats, watches to vehicles, the modern world is increasingly connected to the Internet—the so-called Internet of Things [1]. What is now becoming clear—painfully so for users of Ashley Madison, a popular dating website—is that anything...
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