6/17/2025
My group is involved in several projects focused on molecular diagnostic tools for infectious diseases. Most work involves developing panels of PCR-based diagnostic tests to detect a broad range of…
6/17/2025
The goal of the primary research project in the Hughes laboratory is to investigate a select family of host interferon-inducible CXC chemokines known as CXCL9, CXCL10, and CXCL11 as novel…
6/17/2025
Chemical and nutrient signaling are fundamental for all cellular processes, including interactions between the mammalian host and the microbiota, which have a significant impact on health and disease. My lab…
6/17/2025
I am interested in the mucosal immune response to enteric pathogens. My current research includes understanding the cellular and immune mechanisms that underly environmental enteropathy in children in Bangladesh and…
6/17/2025
Evaluation of molecular epidemiology tools and in vitro detection of resistance through translational research at UVA based on a multi-species outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) producing organisms. Through the…
6/17/2025
Shannon Moonah MD, ScM, is a physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr. Moonah grew up in Jamaica, where he attended medical school…
6/17/2025
Dr. Nataro's multi-disciplinary research program focuses on enteric bacterial infections, principally diarrheagenic E. coli and Shigella spp. His seminal observations include the discovery of enteroaggregative and diffusely adherent E. coli…
6/17/2025
Systems analysis has become a requirement for making sense of high-throughput data and for characterizing properties of biological networks. In order to extend these recent developments to medical applications, there…
6/17/2025
William A. Petri, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. studies immunology and molecular pathogenesis of infectious diseases and their consequences. The scope of research includes immunopathogenesis and vaccine development for COVID-19, molecular parasitology…
6/17/2025
My research focuses on the application of quantitative molecular diagnostics to the epidemiology of enteric diseases in children in developing countries, including revising estimates of pathogen-specific burdens of diarrhea and…
