D. Scott Merrell, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Program Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program
Patricia A. Grant
Program Administrative Specialist
Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program
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Since our first graduating class in 1980, the USU's MDs. Nurses and graduates in biomedical sciences provide exceptional service through service in the U.S. Military and civilian careers of distinction. Today, America's Medical School has 691 enrolled students and 5,043 graduates. Over 1,300 graduates in Biomedical Sciences lead aggressive research in medical research. Today's 663 graduates of the School of Nursing blend science, research and field training in advanced practice and PhD degrees. The USU's Postgraduate Dental College provides advanced degree's to the military's dental community, graduating 72 students since establishment.
The University's research program covers a range of clinical and other topics important to both the military and public health. Infectious diseases, trauma medicine, health maintenance, and cancer are areas of particular strength. Researchers are also making important new efforts in state-of-the-art fields that cut across disciplines, such as genomics, proteomics, and drug-delivery mechanisms.
USU is home to many different Centers and Institutes, which help advance the university's research, education and public service missions. Faculty members and students collaborate with other leading experts at USU's Centers and Institutes on projects that push incredible boundaries across manifold disciplines of biomedical science. Their work is shaping military medicine and world health in many positive, powerful ways.
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D. Scott Merrell, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Program Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program
Patricia A. Grant
Program Administrative Specialist
Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program
Name: Saibal Dey, PhD
Research Interests:
Membrane Transport
Multidrug Resistance
Name: Jeremy Rotty, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Cell Migration
Immunology
Name: Naomi E Aronson, MD, FIDA, FACP
Research Interests:
Leishmaniasis
Tuberculosis
Name: Marzena E Pazgier, MS, PhD
Research Interests:
structural biology, protein engineering, structure based design
infectious disease, HIV, antimicrobial agents
Name: David W. Scott, M.S., Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Regulation of adverse immune responses
Hemophilia, Multiple sclerosis
Name: Christopher C. Broder, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Virology; emerging viruses, virus-host cell interactions, vaccines and therapeutics, viral serological surveillance
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Name: Stephen J. Davies, B.V.Sc., Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Immunology, Host Defenses
Name: Kristi L. Frank, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Bacterial pathogenesis and genetics
Treatment and prevention of biofilm infections
Name: Chou-Zen Giam, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
The molecular biology and pathogenesis of human retroviruses and viral oncogenesis. How chronic NF-kB activation promotes genomic instability and cellular senescence.
Name: Ann E. Jerse, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Adaptation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the female reproductive tract; animal modeling of gonococcal and gonococcal-chlamydial infections; antibiotic resistance and microbial fitness; development of novel anti-infectives and vaccines
Name: George W. Liechti, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis
Name: Joseph J. Mattapallil, B.V.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., PMP®
Research Interests:
Viral Pathogenesis, Animal Models for Emerging Viruses, Anti-viral Vaccines,
Immunology, Host Defenses, Mucosal Pathogens
Name: Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Toxins, Diagnostics, and Therapies
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Name: D. Scott Merrell, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Microbiome, Bacterial stress response and adaptation, Polymicrobial interactions
Name: Edward Mitre, M.D.
Research Interests:
Immunology, Host Defenses
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Name: Brian C. Schaefer, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Immunology, Host Defenses
Cell Mechanisms of Disease, Cell Injury and Repair
Name: Kim C. Williamson, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Basic Biology of Bacterial, Viral, or Parasite Diseases
Immunology, Host Defenses
Name: John Stephen Dumler, M.D.
Research Interests:
Medical Microbiology
Vector-borne diseases
Name: Barbara E.C. Knollmann-Ritschel, M.D., Captain, Navy
Research Interests:
Education
Viral countermeasures, TBI, and radioprotection
Name: Clifford M. Snapper, M.D.
Research Interests:
Basic and Translational Immunology
Name: Charles S Via, M.D.
Research Interests:
T cell immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus, allograft rejection
Name: Frank Shewmaker, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program
Name: Andrew L Snow, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
human immunology, lymphocyte signaling & apoptosis, primary immune disorders
Name: Timothy H. Burgess, M.D., M.P.H., Captain, Navy
Research Interests:
Infectious diseases, immunology, epidemiology
arboviral disease, respiratory viral disease, vectorborne pathogens, vaccine development
Name: David F Cruess, PhD
Research Interests:
Public Health
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Name: Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, PhD
Research Interests:
Vector-borne diseases and vector biology, leishmaniasis, arboviruses, vector control
Immunopathology and ecology of vector-borne diseases, emerging infectious diseases
Name: V. Ann Stewart, DVM, PhD
Research Interests:
Medical parasitology
malaria and HIV co-infection
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