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

Published: March 22, 2018, 12:53 p.m.

b'Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD (photo by Jim Howe) Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD (photo by Jim Howe) Hematologist Hematologist Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD, created a nonprofit organization,, created a nonprofit organization, Education for Afghan Children 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., 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.'