Center for Integrated Solutions for Infectious Diseases

We strive to leverage cutting edge technologies based on biological insight to discover novel biomarkers and develop new diagnostic tools that can accurately and rapidly detect disease, predict disease severity, and track disease progression.  For example, we are developing rapid methods for determining antibiotic susceptibility based on pathogen transcriptional responses to antibiotic stress and for diagnosing an infecting pathogen based on the detection of pathogen nucleic acids in infected individuals, as well as identifying host biomarkers from patients to diagnose infection and prognosticate.