Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research
The Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research (cWIDR, pronounced “see-wider”) is investigating common, but often overlooked infections that differentially affect women and man by building a new, innovative field at the intersection of women’s health, microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases.
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Jeffrey P. Henderson, M.D., Ph.D. / Key words: bacterial infections, infection metabolomics, metal ion biology.
Scott J. Hultgren / Key words: urinary tract infections, uropathogenic E. coli, drug and vaccine development.
Christina L. Stallings, PhD / Key words: tuberculosis, bacterial infections, inflammation, innate immunity, drug resistant infections.
Andrew L. Kau / Key words: microbiome, asthma, Immunoglobulin A, mucosal immunity.
Carolina B. López / Key words: respiratory viruses, antiviral immunity, defective viral genomes.
Jonathan H. Sheehan / Key words: personalized structural biology, computational structural biology
Michael Caparon / Key words: catheter-associated urinary tract infection, Streptococcus pyogenes, Enterococcus faecalis, vaccine development, antibiotic-sparing therapies.
Drew Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D. Key words: neonatal sepsis, gut microbiome, metagenomics, antibiotics.