Meet our Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Infectious Disease Research Team
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Christopher J. Kristich, PhD
Professor; Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research
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Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
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Ravit Boger, MD
Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease
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Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research
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Michael B. Dwinell, PhD
Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Hanis-Stepka-Rettig Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
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Kelly J. Henrickson, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Midwest Respiratory Virus Program
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Martin J. Hessner, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology); Director, Max McGee Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes
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Anna H. Huppler, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology
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Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
Julia A. Uihlein, MA, Dean of the School of Medicine, Provost and Executive Vice President
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John R. Kirby, PhD
Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research
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Candice S. Klug, PhD
James S. Hyde Professor of Biophysics; Director, National Biomedical EPR Center; Program Director, Biophysics Graduate Program; Director, Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Biomedical Sciences
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Suresh Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor; Scientific Director, CRI Imaging Core; Scientific Director, NRC Imaging Facility
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Nathan A. Ledeboer, PhD
Professor; Medical Director, Clinical Microbiology; Medical Director, Molecular Diagnostics
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Robert Lochhead, PhD
Assistant Professor; Secondary Faculty in Medicine (Rheumatology)
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Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Research
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Matthew C. Surdel, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Center for Infectious Disease Research
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Brian F. Volkman, PhD
Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Professor, Biochemistry
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