Microbiology-Immunology-Tropical Medicine
Douglas Nixon, M.D., chair and professor of microbiology, immunology & tropical medicine, was quoted in the InTheCapital article on the GW School of Medicine and Health Science's new state-of-the-art lab spaces.
A study by Michael Bukrinsky, M.D., Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, shows similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease — misfolded proteins that can lead to neurological diseases — and the HIV virus.
Michael Bukrinsky, M.D., Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was featured in Infection Control Today for his recently published research on similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease — misfolded proteins that can lead to neurological diseases — and…
Nixon recently toured the department’s new laboratory space with Dean Akman.
Dr. Jeffrey Bethony and Dr. David Diemert have received a grant to develop and test a novel, low-cost hookworm vaccine to help control human hookworm infection in endemic countries.
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, has received a $407,233 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop techniques to manipulate hookworm DNA.
Steven Zeichner, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was quoted in Infection Control Today discussing his recently published research finding that an alternate, "escape" replication process triggered by apoptosis—the process of cell death or "…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that HIV/AIDS researcher, Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., will be joining the faculty on Oct. 1, 2013 as the Ross Professor of Basic Science Research and chair of the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine.
Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was invited to speak on the role of vaccines in control of schistosomiasis at an international meeting of leading experts, jointly held by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the…
New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL.