Research Tracks & Mentors
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One of the greatest strengths of the UC San Diego site is the involvement of our highly successful research faculty who will serve as mentors for the RAPID program. UC San Diego is
one of the nation's top research institutions, and our research faculty mentors have a variety of expertise in infectious diseases research.
Potential Research Mentors
A sample of potential research mentors, by research track, from a campus-wide pool for the UC San Diego RAPID program are found in the table and links below.
If you have any questions, please email
hsfacaffairs@ucsd.edu.
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Brookie Best, PharmD, MAS
| Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Clinical Pharmacology, Obstetric Pharmacology, Pediatric Pharmacology
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Ethan Bier, PhD
| Biological Sciences
| Genetics and biology of malaria vectors, bacterial toxin action
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Ben Croker, PhD
| Pediatrics
| Cell death, neutrophil biology, innate immunity
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Laura Crotty Alexander, MD
| Medicine
| Effects of Vaping and E-cigarettes on Lung Inflammation
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Pieter Dorrestein, PhD
| Pharmacy & Pediatrics
| Metabolomics of the human microbiome and bacterial pathogens
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Partho Ghosh, PhD
| Chemistry & Biochemistry
| Structural biochemistry of bacterial and protozoan pathogenesis
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Pradipta Ghosh, MD
| Medicine, Cell and Molecular Medicine
| Intracellular trimetric-GTPase system
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Rob Knight, PhD
| Pediatrics & Computer Science
| Human microbiome and its impacts on health and disease
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George Liu, MD, PhD
| Pediatrics
| Staphylococcal host-pathogen interactions, vaccine development
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Victor Nizet, MD*§
| Pediatrics & Pharmacy
| Bacterial pathogenesis, innate immunity, novel ID therapeutics
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Bernhard Palsson, PhD
| Bioengineering & Pediatrics
| Systems biology of bacterial pathogens and antibiotic resistance
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Manuela Raffatellu, MD§ | Pediatrics
| Salmonella host-pathogen interactions, GI mucosal immunity
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Emily Troemel, PhD
| Biological Sciences
| Host-pathogen interactions,
Cryptosporidium, Pseudomonas
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Elina Zuniga, PhD
| Biological Sciences
| Innate and adaptic immunity to viral infections
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*Track Leader;
§Executive Committee; All are Full Professors
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Constance Benson, MD
| Medicine
| HIV clinical trial and design
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Victor DeGruttola, ScD
| Family Medicine & Public Health
| HIV biostatistics and study design
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John Guatelli, MD
| Medicine
| HIV pathogenesis and restriction factors
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Scott Letendre, MD
| Medicine
| NeuroAIDS and HCV clinical trials
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Susan Little, MD
| Medicine
| Primary HIV infection and clinical trial design
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David Looney, MD#
| Medicine
| HIV molecular biology and next generation techniques
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Natasha Martin, DPhil#
| Medicine
| HIV and ID epidemic modeling
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Sheldon Morris, MD#
| Medicine
| HIV and sexually transmitted infections and clinical trial design
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Davey Smith, MD*§
| Medicine
| HIV cure and molecular epidemiology
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Stephen Spector, MD§
| Pediatrics
| Pediatric HIV clinical trials
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Celsa Spina, PhD#
| Medicine
| HIV immunology
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee;
#Associate Professors; Others are all Full Professors |
Constance Benson, MD
| Medicine
| Mycobacteria therapeutics
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Conor Caffrey, PhD
| Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Drugs and diagnostics for parasitic diseases
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Scott Letendre, MD
| Medicine
| NeuroAIDS and HCV clinical trials
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Anita Raj, PhD
| Family Medicine & Public Health
| Gender equity in global health, maternal/fetal health
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Sharon Reed, MD§
| Medicine
| Parasitic diseases and therapeutics
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Robert Schooley, MD
| Medicine
| Point of care diagnostics
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Argentina Servin, MD, MPH
| Medicine
| Sexual violence, substance abuse, HIV/STI risk among vulnerable underserved populations
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Aleem Siddiqui, PhD
| Medicine
| Viral hepatitis pathogenesis
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Jay Silverman, PhD
| Medicine
| ID epidemiology in vulnerable populations
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Davey Smith, MD§
| Medicine
| Diagnostics for resource limited settings
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Jamila Stockman, PhD#
| Medicine
| ID and health disparities
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Steffanie Strathdee, PhD
| Medicine
| ID epidemiology in vulnerable populations
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Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD*§
| Medicine
| Malaria pathogenesis
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee; #Associate Professors; Others are all Full Professors
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