Reconceptualizing Antibiotic Therapy Taking Host-Pathogen Interaction into Consideration
Gauri Rao, Pharm.D., M.S., is an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.
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Friday Morning Conference Series
STI/HIV Research Presentations
T32 trainees will present STI/HIV research presentations.
Bacteriophage Therapy: Is it a Feasible Approach for Treating Intracellular Nontuberculous Mycobacteria?
Miriam Braunstein, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, member of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
HIV Persistence
Mary F. Kearney, PhD, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, NIH Cancer Center
Host-Pathogen Dynamics
Nihal Altan-Bonn, PhD, Senior Investigator, NIH Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics
Building a Fasciola Hepatica Research Program in the Highlands of Peru
Miguel M. Cabada, MD, MSc, Associate Professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases of University of Texas Medical Branch
HIV Prevention During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Towards a Status-Neutral Approach
Ben Chi, MD, MSc, Professor, Vice Chair of Research and Innovation, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and member of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases.
A Community-Led Model to Improve PrEP Uptake and HBV/HCV Testing Among MSM in China
Weiming Tang, PhD, Research Associate Professor and Co-Director of UNC Project-China with the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
An HIV Cure In 10 Years? Update On Progress and Challenges
David Margolis, MD, is Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Epidemiology, and Director of the UNC HIV Cure Center. His research group has a long history of translational HIV research: investigating basic molecular, virological, and immunological phenomenon, and leveraging insights to develop new interventions in HIV disease. He … Read more
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Marcia Hobbs, PhD, is a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. She conducts translational research focused on non-viral sexually transmitted infections; the lab supports a variety of research projects aimed directly at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections or the use of these infections as bio-markers in evaluating biomedical or … Read more
The Dark Side of the Microbiome
J. Victor Garcia, PhD, director of the International Center for the Advancement of Translational Science and Oliver Smithies Investigator Professor of Medicine, is interested in how human viruses cause human cancer, how HIV causes AIDS, how SARS-CoV-2 causes COVD-19 and why the immune system is not able to control viral infections. The working hypothesis of … Read more
Impacts of Ecology On RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Efficacy
Michael Emch, PhD, is W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology. He is also a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center. His expertise is in infectious disease ecology, spatial epidemiology, neighborhood determinants of health, and geographic information science applications of public health. He leads the Spatial Health Research Group which conducts research that … Read more
Translating Cabotegravir PrEP From Clinical Trials to the Field: Upcoming Malawi Plans
Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine and the scientific director of UNC Project-Malawi. She focuses on the management of HIV disease in developing countries including prevention, interactions with endemic diseases, treatment of opportunistic infections including malignancies and monitoring strategies for antiretroviral therapy in this setting. The evaluation of the use of antiretroviral … Read more
Tracking the Gut Microbial Ecosystem in Cancer: My Adventures in Microbiome Science
Tessa M. Andermann, MD, MPH, is focus on how intestinal microbiome-host interactions impact infectious complications and other outcomes in patients with hematologic malignancies. Her goal is to develop microbiome-targeted therapies for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in these and other immunocompromised patient populations.
Emergence of Diagnostic-Resistant Malaria in Africa
Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine who studies the molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. He is broadly interested in applying cutting-edge molecular and genomic tools to solve problems faced by marginalized populations across the globe. His work has focused on malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other sites, … Read more
Tickborne Illnesses
Rafael Felipe Da Costa Vieira, PhD, is an assistant professor of One Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences and CIPHER at UNC-Charlotte. Dr. Vieira's research focuses on the ecoepidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD), genetic diversity of TBD pathogens, tick microbiome, pathogen discovery, and One Health. Over the last 12 years, his … Read more
Richard Reithinger, PhD, MSc
Richard Reithinger, PhD, MSc, a distinguished fellow with the Research Triangle Institute, is a practical, innovative leader and extensively published author in the field of malaria and other vector-borne disease epidemiology, case management, prevention, and control. He is an epidemiologist with extensive field-based experience managing infectious disease programs in Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America, … Read more
The Carolina Survivor Clinic: Using Primary Care to Treat Refugees who are Torture Survivors
Rajeev K. Bais, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the Carolina Survivor Clinic, providing comprehensive care to refugees who are survivors of torture. Dr. Bais is developing a Global Health and Human Rights Initiative in the Division of Infectious … Read more
World AIDS Day
Join the Institute and Center for Aids Research (CFAR) for a special program on World AIDS Day 2023, celebrating the strength, resilience and diversity of the HIV community, and the advances of many UNC investigators who are working at the forefront of AIDS research.
New Tools for HIV and STI Public Health Action in North Carolina
Erika Samoff, MPH, PhD, is the HIV/STD/Hepatitis Lead Epidemiologist with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. Taylor Swankie, MPH, is a data analyst/epidemiologist with the N.C. Department of Public Health.