Christoph Grundner, PhD, SEATRAC Basic Science Core Co-Lead, reflects on his grandfathers work in a Berlin tuberculosis sanatorium.

Christoph Grundner, PhD, SEATRAC Basic Science Core Co-Lead, reflects on the history of tuberculosis treatment, connecting his grandfather’s work in a Berlin tuberculosis sanatorium during World War II with today’s reality of multi-drug-resistance. Read the original essay on Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Dr. Georg Grundner holding a chest radiograph, Birkenhaag sanatorium, Berlin, ca. 1940s. Courtesy of the author.