Dr. Ann Dennis is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Medicine. As an infectious disease physician, Dr. Dennis is skilled in HIV clinical management, lending my research practical clinical grounding and relevance. Her research bridges basic, clinical, and epidemiologic science by using HIV-1 molecular epidemiology and phylogenetics to understand HIV transmission on … Read more
Dr. Boyce’s research focuses on the spatial and clinical epidemiology of malaria and other vector-borne diseases, particularly in rural, underserved communities. Current projects include (i) an NIH career development award (K23AI141764) that aims to develop more efficient methods of locating and targeting Anopheles mosquito breeding sites and (ii) a randomized controlled trial of insecticide-treated baby … Read more
major focus of research is the science and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Dr. Weber has served at the Medical Director of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology (Infection Prevention) at the University of North Carolina Hospitals (UNCH) for >35 years. Their Department now consists of >20 people. He has served as an Associate Chief Medical … Read more
Dr. Golin is a physician, director of the Social and Behavioral Research Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research, and a professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and in the UNC Department of Medicine. She is engaged in research on the development and assessment of … Read more
Dr. van Duin is the founding Director of the Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program, which provides consultative Infectious Diseases care to patients with transplants, malignancies, and burns. His primary research interests are antibacterial resistance in gram-negative bacilli and infections in vulnerable immunocompromised patient populations. He leads the consortium on resistance against carbapenems in Klebsiella and … Read more
Maria Abad-Fernandez works in the Goonetilleke Lab
Qingyun Liu is a microbiologist and geneticist with expertise in both computational and experimental approaches. Throughout his Ph.D. and Postdoc training, his research has focused on elucidating the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial pathogens and their consequential impacts on transmission, drug resistance, and treatment outcomes.
Through Dr. Thompson's research as a clinician scientist, she has advocated for improving maternal and infant health through quality preventive measures against HBV and other vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. Her work with colleagues in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on HBV prevention has informed policy at the national level and has led to the country’s … Read more
Dr. Weiss received his PhD in Microbiology from New York University in 2004. Working under Dr. Arturo Zychlinsky, he studied how Toll-like Receptors work together to fight bacterial infections. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University under Drs. Stanley Falkow and Denise Monack, studying virulence mechanisms of Francisella and the role of the inflammasome … Read more
Matthew Ippolito, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Clinical Epidemiology for the Southern and Central Africa International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR). He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.D. from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He completed his Internal Medicine Internship and … Read more
Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is the Executive Director of Global One Health Academy and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. He is responsible for expanding NC State’s One Health research, education, and engagement efforts and developing evidence-based recommendations for tackling current and future global threats. He is an … Read more
Melissa Conrad's research focuses on the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda and the molecular epidemiology of malaria transmission. Working closely with a team of researchers in Uganda, their group evaluates antimalarial resistance in Plasmodium falciparum collected from sites across Uganda. Using molecular and ex vivo approaches, they surveil for emerging or spreading drug … Read more
Dr. Hood Pishchany’s research focuses on microbial ecology in the vaginal microbiome. The scientific and medical communities have gained an increasing understanding of the vast populations of microbes living in and on the human body, as well as the potential roles these microbes play in health and disease. The vaginal microbiome is associated with several … Read more
Jose Munita is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of International Research, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG), UTHealth, Houston, TX. His ESI grant supports VENOUS, which is a prospective, multi-site observational cohort study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with bloodstream infections due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In addition, parallel collection of … Read more
Dan Olson is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases. His research interests are focused on how to measure the effectiveness of vaccines and other health interventions against emerging infectious diseases. This includes how to detect disease in a population using innovative surveillance tools (i.e., smartphones, crowd-sourcing), studying the true burden of disease (both the health … Read more
Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Special Advisor to the President. In addition, Dr. Malani is Deputy Editor and Director of Editorial Equity for JAMA and the JAMA Network. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the University of Michigan’s Chief Health Officer. … Read more
Brian Conlon is an Associate Professor. Antibiotic tolerance and antibiotic resistance are major challenges, resulting in growing numbers of deaths worldwide each year. The Conlon Lab focuses on antibiotic tolerance and resistance in the infection microenvironment. Here, nutrient availability, interactions between the pathogen and the host, as well as co-infecting or commensal microorganisms, can have … Read more
