6/17/2025
Dr. McManus is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health. She joined the UVA faculty as a…
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
Innate immunity provides the first line of defense against pathogens, which is critically important to limit their replication and spread. However, overactivation of innate immunity causes autoimmune diseases and may…
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
I am interested in mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. My research currently is focused on understanding the interactions of Clostridioides diffcile with intestinal cells and the associated impact on the immune…
6/17/2025
Our research on viruses provides insight not only into the diseases they cause, but it also leads to the discovery of novel basic mechanisms that operate in eukaryotic cells. Over…
6/17/2025
The Spencer lab studies host-pathogen interactions of Gram-positive bacteria, focusing on the major neonatal pathobiont Group B Streptococcus (GBS). GBS can asymptomatically colonize the female genital tract, leading to transmission…
