Work with our internationally recognized faculty to explore the science of infectious disease. Our focus on mentoring and teamwork will support your training.
We study a wide variety of viruses, including papillomaviruses, HIV and HCMV. We aim to understand and prevent viral infection and to develop antiviral therapies.
An NIH grant will allow Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, to study pathogens than cause urinary tract infections, the most common infections worldwide and a leading cause of morbidity and health care expenditures across all ages.
At a recent Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, three Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers — two doctoral students and a faculty member, all from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology — each took home distinguished awards.
