Antibiotics, Vaccines & Bacterial Therapeutics

Learn about research studies and clinical trials conducted by the Division of Infectious Disease in the areas of antibiotics, vaccines and bacterial therapeutics.

Vaccines and Therapeutics

• Stephen Calderwood, MD: Host immune responses and protective immunity following cholera and cholera vaccination
• Richelle Charles, MD: Human immune responses to cholera and typhoid fever
• Elizabeth Hohmann, MD: Fecal transplantation for C. difficile and other indications
• Satoshi Kashiwagi, MD, PhD: The development of a novel vaccine adjuvant using laser light
• Cammie Lesser, MD, PhD: Bacterial host-pathogen interactions and the development of designer probiotics as therapeutics
• Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD:  Research and development of vaccines and immunotherapies for infectious diseases (including COVID-19), cancer and diabetes
• Edward Ryan, MD, DTM&H: Host-pathogen interactions, immune responses and vaccine development for bacterial pathogens

Antibiotic Resistance and Diagnostics

• Roby Bhattacharyya, MD, PhD: Antimicrobial resistance; microbial genomics and transcriptomics; rapid bacterial and fungal diagnostics; single-cell immune profiling in infection
• Marcia Goldberg, MD: Bacterial host-pathogen interactions and rapid diagnostics of infection
• David Hooper, MD: Mechanisms and epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance
• Deborah Hung, MD, PhD: In vivo mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and infectious disease diagnostics
• Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD: Optimizing infection control policy to improve patient care and resource allocation