Microbiology-Immunology-Tropical Medicine
Alan E. Greenberg, M.D., professor of medicine and microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was awarded the Alvan R. Feinstein Award for Patient Care in the Field of Clinical Epidemiology by the American College of Physicians.
Today, Douglas Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine and Walter G. Ross Professor of Basic Science Research, was named a 2014 National Academy of Inventors Fellow.
Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and scientific director of the Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, published a perspective in Science, calling for researchers to adapt new technologies to research parasitic flatworms.
An interdisciplinary team of GW researchers are investigating more accurate and rapid methods of identification of bacterial pathogens in patients with pulmonary infections, which could lead to more targeted antimicrobial therapy with potentially less adverse effects and lower costs. Next-…
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently awarded $430,722 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a model system to study parasitic nematode infection, which will lead to greater understanding of the infective process and the…
Douglas Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, was published in the Cutting Edge section of the Journal of Immunology for his discovery of an antibody that can neutralize the HIV-1 fossil virus. This may lead to viable immunotherapy option…
Douglas Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, was featured in Infection Control Today for his recently published research on an antibody that can neutralize the HIV-1 fossil virus, published in the Cutting-edge Section of the Journal of…
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently published in the Journal of Parasitology for his recommendations of sustainable solutions for controlling soil-transmitted helminths infections.
Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., was installed as the Walter G. Ross Professor of Basic Science Research on March 18.
Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was quoted in the NIH Record for an article on genomics research and its ability to shape all areas of health, including global heatlh.