We are delighted to announce that Assistant Professor Adam Lauring wins Burroughs Wellcome Fund "Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease" Award.
We are very happy to announce the following faculty promotions which will be effective September 1, 2017.
We are very proud to announce that Dr. Kathy Spindler has been invited to visit Yale University as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
We are very excited to announce that our very own Michele Swanson has recently been elected President-Elect of the American Society for Microbiology!
Scott Larsen, PhD, Joseph Burckhalter Collegiate Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, and Director of the Vahlteich Medicinal Chemistry Core, and Vernon Carruthers, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, were awarded over $420,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funds comprise the R21 phase of an R21/R33 award that will support the discovery and development of new therapeutics for eukaryotic pathogens.
We are delighted to announce that Vincent B. Young, MD, PhD has been approved by the Regents as the William Henry Fitzbutler Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine, effective February 1, 2017 through August 31, 2021.
We are delighted to announce that Mary O’Riordan, Ph.D., has recently been approved by the Regents as the first Frederick C. Neidhardt Collegiate Professor. The establishment of the Professorship itself was approved at the December, 2016 Regent’s meeting.
Dr. Bethany B. Moore will be installed as the first Galen B. Toews, MD Collegiate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine on March 8, 2017 at 5:00pm at the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium (109 Zina Pitcher Place).
The most recent Microbiology and Immunology newsletter is available to download.
Note from the ASM Director: Stefano Bertuzzi
