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Juan L. Rivera-Correa Publishes Research on Autoantibodies in Veterinary Parasitology

Juan L. Rivera-Correa (Biological Sciences) published “Autoantibodies against phosphatidylserine and DNA during canine Dirofilaria immitis infection,” a senior/ corresponding author peer-review research article in the journal Veterinary Parasitology from his research program/lab, Immunology of Tropical Infections Lab. This work is part of his international collaboration with scientists from Costa Rica. On December 13th, he also represented City Tech (as Co-chair of the HSI Steering Committee), in the New York CHIPS and Latino Workforce Roundtable with the three Chair-elect Congressmembers of the Minority Caucuses: Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke and Grace Meng, the former Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Commerce Susie Feliz, and a panel of industry and community leaders to discuss the booming industry of semiconductors and how to capacitate our CUNY students to meet those workforce needs.