Basic & Translational Research
Ishmael D. Aziati, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
- Email: idaziati@wustl.edu
Dr Aziati specializes in the use of integrated approaches to control and prevent emerging vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases, with a special focus on pathogen surveillance and developing therapeutic interventions.
Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-273-1212
- Email: mbaldridge@wustl.edu
Dr. Baldridge studies the complicated interplay among three important factors: commensal microbes, the host immune system, and viral and bacterial pathogens.
Jacco Boon, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-286-0857
- Fax: 314-286-2784
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
Dr. Boon specializes in basic research on RNA viruses, with a focus on emerging virus such as influenza virus, Bourbon virus and SARS-CoV-2.
Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-5198
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: pbudge@wustl.edu
Dr. Budge specializes in translational, public health-related research, with a special focus on filarial infections—insect-borne threadlike parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), and loiasis (African eye worm).
Brett Case, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Email: casejb@wustl.edu
Dr. Case's primary research interests include vaccine design, generation of broadly cross-reactive immune responses, mucosal immunity, viral immunology, and emerging pathogens.
Pallavi Chandra, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-5228
- Email: chandra.pallavi@wustl.edu
Dr. Chandra specializes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis, with a special focus on immunometabolism. In recent work, she characterized a novel relationship between macrophage fatty acid metabolism and antimycobacterial immunity.
Miguel A. Chavez, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: m.chavezconcha@wustl.edu
Miguel A. Chavez, MD MSc is currently working with the BJH-Antimicrobial Stewardship program and the division of Hospital Medicine in the department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor.
Zhenlu Chong, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: zchong@wustl.edu
Dr. Chong specializes in innate immunology and infectious diseases, with a special focus on how innate immunity responds to flavivirus infection. He is also very interested in identifying host factors of flaviviruses including West Nile virus, Dengue virus, Zika virus, etc. by using CRISPR screening.
Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD
The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-2842
- Fax: 314-362-9230
- Email: diamond@wusm.wustl.edu
Michael Diamond, MD, PhD is the leader of a basic and translational research laboratory studying the interface between viral pathogenesis and host immunity. His laboratory focuses on emerging RNA viruses including flaviviruses, alphaviruses, and coronaviruses.
Peter U. Fischer, PhD
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-7876
- Fax: 314-454-5293
- Email: pufische@wustl.edu
Dr. Fischer specializes in basic and translational sciences to support the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases, with a special focus on helminths.
James M. Fleckenstein, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-362-9218
- Fax: 314-362-9129
- Email: jflecken@wustl.edu
Dr. Fleckenstein’s lab focuses on the identification and molecular characterization of novel ETEC virulence factors that could serve as targets for vaccine development. Studies in the lab use a variety of molecular techniques and in vitro and in vivo models to elucidate the role of these novel virulence factors in several key steps essential in the pathogenesis of these organisms: bacterial adhesion, intestinal colonization, and finally toxin delivery.
Sumanth Gandra, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
- Phone: 314-454-8276
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: gandras@wustl.edu
Dr. Gandra specializes in clinical and public health research with a special focus on antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance surveillance and healthcare epidemiology in resource limited settings especially in India.
Languages: English, Telugu, Hindi
Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD
David M. and Paula L. Kipnis Distinguished Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-740-8553
- Email: goldberg@borcim.wustl.edu
Dr. Goldberg does basic research on the biology of malaria and identification of drug targets. Parasites have evolved many clever ways to infect their hosts and develop within them. Researching these processes at a molecular level should lead to treatment or prevention of parasitic infections that afflict most of humanity. His laboratory currently has 4 graduate students, 2 postdocs, one pediatric ID fellow, one technician and a research associate professor. Dr. Goldberg directs the Infectious Diseases/Basic Microbial Mechanisms T32 training grant.
Conor Grant, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: conorg@wustl.edu
Dr. Grant specializes in the innate immune responses to the pathogens causing Tuberculosis (TB), Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) and COVID-19 infections, and his laboratory research includes the search for novel therapies targeting the host for these difficult infections.
Alex Hartlage, MD, PhD
Third Year Fellow
- Email: alexh@wustl.edu
Dr. Hartlage was born and raised in Cincinnati. He completed his undergraduate and medical education at Ohio State University in Columbus before moving to St. Louis for residency training. at the Washington University Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Outside of the hospital you will often find Alex walking his dog in Tower Grove Park, attending a STL CITY game, or working on a home improvement project.
Why did you choose WashU for your ID fellowship?
"I chose WashU for the breadth of clinical exposure, exceptional research environment, and intelligent yet humble faculty. The program also places a strong emphasis on trainee wellness and personalized career planning which stood out to me amongst other programs. St. Louis is a wonderful place to learn and train too!"
Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-747-0240
- Fax: 314-362-1232
- Email: hendersonj@wustl.edu
Dr. Henderson specializes in infection pathogenesis, with a special focus on urinary tract infections and identifying how special bacterial adaptations increase pathogenic potential in patients.
Michael J. Hendrix, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: mhendrix@wustl.edu
Dr. Hendrix specializes in antimicrobial stewardship and clinical infectious disease with a special focus on COVID-19 and bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients.
Jenny Hyde, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Email: j.hyde@wustl.edu
Dr. Jenny Hyde leads and performs basic research centered on virus-host interactions. Her work combines molecular virology and RNA biology to uncover the mechanisms by which viral RNA structures regulate RNA-protein interactions, with the goal of identifying new therapeutic targets and advancing antiviral and vaccine development.