Graduate Program, Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine

Faculty:

David Askew, Ph.D.
•• Pathology & Lab Med
•• Associate Professor
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Jason Blackard , Ph.D.
•• Research Assistant Professor
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Bradley Britigan, M.D.
•• Chairman, Internal Medicine
•• Taylor Professor
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Melanie T. Cushion, Ph.D.
•• Int Med-Infectious Disease
•• Professor
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George S. Deepe Jr., M.D.
•• Int Med-Infectious Disease
•• Director
•• Professor
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Simon L. Newman, Ph.D.
•• Int Med-Infect Disease
•• Professor
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Judith Rhodes, Ph.D.
•• Pathology & Lab Med
•• Professor
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George Smulian, M.D.
•• Int Med-Infect Disease
•• Assoc Professor Medicine
•• Chief
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Peter D. Walzer, M.D.
•• Int Med-Infect Disease
•• Professor
•• Associate Chair Research
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The Immunology & Infectious Diseases Division of the Graduate Program is comprised of eleven investigators that have developed international recognition for outstanding research in medical mycology, opportunistic infections and host immune responses.

Graduate students may elect to perform their thesis work in a laboratory that focuses on the molecular and cellular aspects of pathogenesis in a specific organism, or in a lab that studies host immune responses and their relevance to the control of infection and disease.

Organisms of interest include the human eukaryotic pathogens Histoplasma capsulatum, Pneumocystis carinii, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Toxoplasma gondii.