Research Opportunities
John C. Hu, MD, PhD, studies immunoregulatory properties of exosomes in the lung microenvironment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In our division, you’ll collaborate with world-class physician-scientists on translational research projects investigating the pathogenesis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.
Medical Students
You may sign up for research electives with individual faculty members. You should arrange these with faculty before signing up for them with the Office of Medical Education.
Residents
To discuss a potential research project, contact the principal investigator, the program director or the division chief.
Fellows
Our fellows conduct research under the guidance of our internationally recognized investigators.
Research Opportunities
We offer outstanding research opportunities in these and other areas:
- Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis (Thomas Russo)
- Bioinformatics (Elaine Haase; Alan Lesse; Kedar Aras; Marc Halfon)
- Drug development (Thomas Suchyna; Thomas Russo)
- Epidemiology of New Delhi Metallobetalactamases (NDM) producing Enterobacteriaceae in Michigan (Gurmat Gill)
- Epidemiology of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus infections in patients with malignancies (Nikolaos Almyroudis)
- Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli pathogenesis (Thomas Russo)
- Host-pathogen interactions (Michelle Visser; Thomas Russo)
- Increasing Awareness and Health – Quality Improvement Project (Gurmat Gill)
- Infectious Diseases (Raymond Cha; Alan Lesse; Surksha Sirichand)
- Influence of female education on female autonomy and empowerment, and its role in influencing the future generation (Gurmat Gill)
- Innate Immunity (Brahm Segal; Spyridon Stavrou)
- Intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli pathogenesis (John Crane)
- Investigating malaria prevalence and epidemiology in the Brazilian State of Acre (Gurmat Gill)
- Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis (Thomas Russo)
- Mechanism of Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance (John Crane)
- Microbial pathogenesis (Amy Jacobs; Thomas Melendy; Thomas Russo; Anthony Campagnari; John Crane)
- Opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised host (Nikolaos Almyroudis)
- Resistant bacteria in patients with malignancies (Nikolaos Almyroudis)
- Role of nitric oxide in host defense in the intestinal tract (John Crane)
- Role of zinc in intestinal infection (John Crane)
- Supervision At a Glance – Quality Improvement Project (Gurmat Gill)
- Vaccine development (Timothy Murphy; Joseph Bertino; Thomas Russo; Anthony Campagnari; Terry Connell)
