The Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases recently awarded grants to JHU faculty. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, proposals were solicited for both environmental infectious diseases and SARS-CoV-2. The Fisher Center is directed by Dr. Paul G. Auwaerter.
Congratulations to the following Hopkins faculty including two from the Department of Medicine (in bold):
FCDP Awarded Projects for 2021 |
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| PI | School | Department | Project Title |
| Netz Arroyo, PhD | Medicine | Pharmacology and Molecular Science | Point-of-need platform for population-scale monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies |
| Challice Bonifant, MD, PhD | Medicine | Oncology, Pediatric Oncology | H84T-BanLec CAR-NK Cells as Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
| Karen Carroll, MD | Medicine | Pathology, Microbiology | Next Generation Sequencing for Pathogen Identification in Lower Respiratory Infections |
| Meghan Davis, DVM, MPH, PhD | Public Health | Environmental Health Engineering | Immunologic markers associated with environmental exposure to enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus |
| Maged M. Harraz, MD, PhD | Medicine | Neuroscience | Autophagic degradation of ACE2 as a Therapeutic Target in Covid-19 |
| Nate Permpalung, MD, MPH | Medicine | Medicine, ID | Optimizing Diagnostics for Environmentally Acquired Fungal Pneumonia Complicating COVID-19 |
| Matthew Robinson, MD | Medicine | Medicine, ID | A comprehensive suite of web tools to predict COVID-19 trajectory |
| Maxim Rosario, MB BCh BAO | Medicine | Pathology | Adoptive NK cell Therapy for Acquired Fungal Infection |
