Microbiology and Immunology (WCMC)
Kirk Deitsch is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine His work is focused on the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and involves several projects directed toward under...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is responsible for the largest number of deaths worldwide due to a single bacterial infection The increasing number of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) M tubercul...
Björn joined Weill Cornell Medical College in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology He received his doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan...
The Lee lab specializes in the study of HIV global strains diversity and viral genetics in the context of drug resistance and viral persistence With a unique background in viral bioinformatics, deep sequencing assays dev...
Expertise Innate immunity; inflammation; macrophages; neutrophils; nitric oxide; tuberculosis; antimicrobial agents Current Research Interest Host-pathogen interactions, focusing on macrophages and Mycobacterium tuber...
Despite major advances in the fields of microbial pathogenesis and medicinal chemistry, only 2 new chemical classes of antibiotics have been approved in the past 20 years Some infections that were once predictably curabl...
