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Dale Granted $3.9 Million to Develop Universal Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Infection Vaccine
James B. Dale, MD, Gene H. Stollerman Professor of Medicine and chief of the Division
of Infectious Diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC),
recently received a $3,942,923 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for his project titled
“Structure-Based Design of a Broadly Protective Group A Streptococcal Vaccine.” The
funding will be used to develop a safe, broadly effective, and affordable vaccine
to prevent Group A streptococcal (GAS) infections, most commonly known as strep throat,
and their complications. Read Full Story
Dr. Shannon Niedermeyer Receives the Dean's Research Award
Dr. Shannon Niedermeyer, recent graduate of UTHSC College of Medicine, received the Dean’s Research Award for her accomplishments during medical school. Shannon was a Medical Student Research Fellow with the ID Research Group during the summer following her M1 year. She then successfully competed for a year-long Medical Research Scholar Award from the Department of training as the recipient of a Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the national office of Alpha Omega Alpha. Shannon was highly productive as a student investigator, publishing three manuscripts, three abstracts, and presenting at regional and international meetings. She is now an internal medicine resident at Duke and is looking forward to pursuing a career in academic medicine.
2016 Annual Edwin H. Beachy Distinguished Visiting Professorship
The Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry hosted the Annual Edwin H. Beachey Distinguished Visiting Professorship June 7-9, 2016.
The 25th Beachey DVP was Barbara Murray, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Dr. Murray is an internationally recognized expert in antibiotic resistance, molecular pathogenesis of bacterial infections, and the biology of enterococci.
