Mary Cloud Ammons Anderson, Ph.D.
Summary: Despite extensive investment in better healthcare practices, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) remain a major public health concern. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and [...]
Dennis L. Stevens, Ph.D., M.D.
Summary: My longstanding research interest is the role of extracellular toxins in the pathogenesis of severe necrotizing infections and toxic shock syndromes caused by organisms such as group A [...]
Jay Radke, Ph.D.
Summary: Research in my laboratory is focused on understanding how two highly related (99.9% genetically identical) human adenoviruses (Ad14 and Ad14p1) have such disparate pathogenesis. Ad14p1 [...]
Sarah E. Hobdey, Ph.D.
[Accepting students at both IVREF and ISU for Summer 2024] Summary: Research in our laboratory is centered on the development of novel therapies for the treatment of life-threating necrotizing [...]
Margaret Doucette, D.O.
Summary: Many of our nation’s veterans suffer the life-altering complications of diabetes including peripheral vascular disease. Diabetes-associated vascular compromise predisposes the individual [...]
Michael J. Aldape, Ph.D.
Summary: Our group is primarily interested in the effects of antibiotics on growth, sporulation, and virulence factor expression and production by Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic pathogen [...]
Devin Bolz, Ph.D.
Summary: Research in my laboratory focuses on the study of bacterial pathogenesis, investigating the host response to infection and understanding the role of potent bacterial toxins in disease. I [...]
