RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., 20 May 2024- The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is delighted to announce the 2024 recipients of the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. PATH provides opportunities for assistant professors to study the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect.
PATH is a highly competitive award program that provides $500,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund presents the following scientists as the 2024 PATH program recipients:
Kimberly Davis, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Utilizing a 3D human abscess model to uncover antibiotic persistence mechanisms
Tera Levin, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
How mechanisms of pathogenesis arise from environmental battlegrounds
Monica Mugnier, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Role of extravascular spaces in Trypanosoma brucei antigenic variation
Teresa O’Meara, PhD
University of Michigan
Discovery and functional analysis of novel virulence factors in Candida auris
Lena Pernas, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles
Organellar sensing of microbes
Jeremy Rock, PhD
Rockefeller University
Host-pathogen interactions that drive Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence in caseum
Christoph Thaiss, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Gut-brain communication in enteric infection
Aaron Whiteley, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder
From humans to bacteria, how do cells resist viral infections?
The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.
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