Award Recipients

2024-2025

Mara Goodyear, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
University of Victoria

This project will analyze clinical samples using a multi-omics approach to characterize the host cellular response during syphilis infection. Our goal is to use this knowledge to inform diagnostic test development and vaccine design or syphilis.

 

 

 

2023-2024

Stephanie McLaughlin, MD, MPH
Acting Instructor
Attending Physician
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
University of Washington

This project focuses on non-antibiotic means of controlling gonorrhea, including gonococcal vaccine development.

 

 

 

2022-2023

Tara Reid, MD
Acting Instructor
Senior Fellow
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
University of Washington

The rates of syphilis infection are rising.  Our goal is to identify syphilis-specific T cell antigens that can be used in future vaccines against syphilis.

 

 

 

2021-2022

Chase Cannon, MD
Acting Instructor
Senior Fellow
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
University of Washington

Our overarching goals are to better define the interpretation of syphilis serologies in asymptomatic persons who are frequently screened for syphilis and to describe the prevalence of true asymptomatic infections and serofastness in a large county population.

 

2020-2021

Amanda Casto, MD
Acting Instructor
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
University of Washington

Chronic infection with human herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) results in a wide range of clinical syndromes ranging from completely asymptomatic infection to frequently recurrent genital ulcerative disease. This project seeks to identify the viral genetic mediators of HSV-2 disease severity using a genome-wide genotype-phenotype association study approach.