Infectious Diseases NIH T32 Basic Science Training Grant

• Up to three years of funding for bench research will be provided by the grant.
• Most fellows entering the program will be at the NIH PGY 4 level, having completed a three-year pediatric residency and the first year of clinical training of the Infectious Disease Fellowship.
• The training grant targets MD/DO postdoctoral fellows with prior lab experience or MD/PhD postdoctoral fellows.

At the time you apply for the Infectious Disease Fellowship, please contact the Fellowship Directors in Infectious Diseases at Penn (Emily Blumberg at blumbere@mail.med.upenn.edu) or CHOP (Brian Fisher at fisherbria@email.chop.edu) to express their interest in being considered for a slot on the training grant.

Applicants to either the CHOP or Penn Infectious Disease Fellowship Programs are encouraged to review the list of potential mentors below and indicate to the Fellowship Directors possible mentors that they want to meet on the day of their interview. Additional information about the research interests of the mentors can be found on their bios located on their Department or Divisional websites. Every effort will be made to arrange an interview with at least two potential mentors.

Several themes of investigation are represented by the mentors, including but not limited to:

• HIV (Bar, Bushman, Collman, Hahn, Hoxie, June, Montaner)
• Immunology (Chang, Montaner, Wherry)
• Vaccine development (Friedman, Hoxie)
• Pathogenesis (Friedman, St. Geme, Weiss)
• Host-pathogen interactions (Cherry, Kohli and Weitzman)
• Microbiome research (Bushman, Collman, Grice)

These themes of investigation are highly relevant for trainees interested in infectious diseases, and we have selected outstanding mentors to ensure the success of the training program.

• Harvey Friedman, MD – Infectious Disease, grant PI
• Joseph St. Geme III, MD – Pediatrics, grant co-PI
• Katharine Bar, MD – Infectious Disease
• Frederic Bushman, PhD – Microbiology
• Kyong-Mi Chang, MD – Gastroenterology
• Sara Cherry, PhD – Microbiology
• Ronald Collman, MD – Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Elizabeth Grice, PhD – Dermatology
• Beatrice Hahn, MD – Hematology/Oncology and Microbiology
• James Hoxie, MD – Hematology/Oncology
• Carl June, MD – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Rahul Kohli, MD, PhD – Infectious Disease
• Luis Montaner, DVM, DPhil – Wistar Institute
• George Shaw, MD, PhD – Hematology/Oncology and Microbiology
• Susan Weiss, PhD – Microbiology
• Matthew Weitzman, PhD – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• E. John Wherry, PhD – Microbiology