Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Research, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine.
David Aronoff, MD, is the John B. Hickham Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and chair of the department of medicine. Dr. Aronoff established his independent career as a physician-scientist in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Michigan where he held faculty appointments in both Internal Medicine and Microbiology … Read more
The following STI/HIV T-32 trainees will present their projects during Friday Conference. Cynthia Thomas: "Determining vaccine antigens that promote protection from Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection." Cynthia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Born in Haiti, she emigrated to the United States when she was very young. She attended the University of … Read more
The following fellows in the Training in Infectious Disease Technology (TIDE) T-32 Program will present their projects during the Friday Conference Series. Diana Zychowski, MD, PhD, is an Infectious Disease Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research focus is on the intersection of tick-borne infections, public health surveillance, and population … Read more
Mary Kearney, PhD, is deputy director of the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program the NIH Cancer Institute. Dr. Kearney conducts research on the emergence of HIV drug resistance, the persistence of HIV during antiretroviral treatment (ART), and the sources of rebound viremia after stopping ART. Her studies have demonstrated that a diverse population of HIV-infected … Read more
Elizabeth (Eli) Arant, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the transplant infectious diseases group here at UNC Chapel Hill. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia and her general infectious diseases and transplant ID fellowships at UNC Chapel Hill. She also received her masters of clinical … Read more
Heather Henderson, PhD, is a postdoc trainee with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
Presentations by ID Path T-32 Fellows: Drs. Thomas Holowka, Martin Hsu, Allaura Cone and Farhang Aghakhanian. Allaura Cone, PhD Title: CD81 Fusion Alters SARS-CoV-2 Spike Trafficking Bio: Allure Cone received a bachelor's in biology in 2016 from Florida State University. She then pursued a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine at FSU … Read more
Alexander J. Mentzer, DPhil, FRCPath, MRCP, MSc, is a Scientific Principal Investigator at the Centre for Human Genetics in the University of Oxford, and a Consultant Physician specializing in Infectious Disease, Microbiology and Acute General Medicine. His research focus is on the understanding of human genetic variation and its impact on susceptibility and outcomes with infectious … Read more
Kenneth Mayer, MD, is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of The Fenway Institute where he teaches and mentors medical students, residents, and fellows. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, Gay … Read more
ID Week 2024 will take place in Los Angeles, California, Oct. 16-20.
Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Grad’s work uses interdisciplinary methods, including basic microbiology, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology, to study how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, with publications in Science, … Read more
