Tessa M. Andermann, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Areas of Interest
Infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients.
About
Dr. Andermann is an Infectious Diseases physician specializing in the care of patients with compromised immune systems. She works together with a team of physicians and health professionals to provide the best and most compassionate care possible to patients with cancer or who have undergone transplantation. Dr. Andermann’s research focuses 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.
Awards and Honors
- UNC Innovation Center Grant Pilot Award- (2024)
- NC TraCS Translational Science Pilot Award- (2024)
- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease Pilot Grant- (2022)
- NIH-NIAID K23 Career Development Award- (2021)
- UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Award- (2020)
- Amy Strelzer Manasevit Foundation Award- (2019)
- NIH-NCATS KL2 Mentored Career Award- (2017)
- ASBMT New Investigator’s Award- (2017)
In the News
There are plenty of benefits that come with major academic health systems like UNC Health. Doctors and nurses get to work alongside researchers studying new advances in medical science, researchers get a first-hand look at the fundamentals of medical practice, and patients get access to a wealth of resources and specialists. And as the science … Read more ID Week took place October 16-19 in Los Angeles, CA, the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists. UNC’s Division of Infectious Diseases was well represented at the event. … Read more Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) research at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases brings together collaborators from schools and departments across UNC. Following is an interview with David van Duin, MD, PhD, Brian Conlon, PhD, Luther Bartelt, MD, Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH, and Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH, DTM&H. Why is antimicrobial resistance an important issue? … Read more IGHID has a new hub of collaborative work focused on combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Leveraging the Institute’s pan-university framework, the program brings together expertise in basic science, pharmacology, epidemiology, clinical research and environmental studies from schools and departments all across UNC. Led by David van Duin, MD, PhD, Gauri Rao, PharmD, MS, and Brian Conlon, … Read more
Pilot Project Aims to Create New Pipeline for Microbial Research
ID Faculty Members, Fellows Present Studies During ID Week
Q&A: Investigators Discuss AMR Research at UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
IAMIGHID: Spotlighting the AMR Collaborators