RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2021 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH). The award provides opportunities for accomplished researchers to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases.
The PATH program is highly competitive and provides $500,000 over a period of five years. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.
“The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award provides a rare opportunity to explore questions about how humans and our potential pathogens move forward in one another’s context, whether in sickness or in health,” said Senior Program Officer Dr. Victoria McGovern. “Understanding this shared biology can yield invaluable insights for better health and can open new paths to further discovery.”
The 2021 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease are:
Matthew D. Daugherty, PhD
University of California-San Diego
Finding the pressure points: Evolution-guided discovery of novel host-virus conflicts
Lawrence A. David, PhD
Duke University
Dietary strategies for enhancing bacterial pathogen resistance in the gut
Elizabeth S. Egan, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Dissecting host-parasite interactions between Plasmodium falciparum and the bone marrow
Gianna E. Hammer, PhD
Duke University
Decoding T cell mediated mechanisms underpinning sterilizing immunity without adverse pathology at mucosal barriers
Timothy W. Hand, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Mechanisms of tissue resident memory T cell protection against enteric infection
Nicholas S. Heaton, PhD
Duke University School of Medicine
Hormone mediated regulation of antiviral immune responses
Helen M. Lazear, PhD
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Host Range Determinants of Emerging Flaviviruses
Sebastian Lourido, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mapping pathogen coevolution through host diversity
Laura-Isobel McCall, PhD
University of Oklahoma
Role of spatial metabolic heterogeneity in disease tropism
Jakob von Moltke, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine
Establishment, maintenance, and antigen specificity of T cell memory in helminth infection
John Whitney, PhD
McMaster University
Role of adenosine-containing alarmones in commensal and pathogenic bacteria
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