Mechanisms of Clostridium difficile pathogenesis
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Clostridium difficile ecology in the gut
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Mechanisms of Clostridium difficile persistence
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Human T lymphopoiesis in bone marrow or cord blood transplant
Mentors: Phong Le, PhD and Patrick Stif, MD
MBSR for Psycho-Immune Dysregulation in Cancer
Mentors: Herbert Mathews, PhD and Linda Janusek, PhD, RN
Immune dysregulation that is a consequence of psychosocial distress
Mentors: Herbert Mathews, PhD and Linda Janusek, PhD, RN
Outbreak investigation
Mentors: TBD and Jorge Parada, MD, MPH
Improving etiologic diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection
Mentors: Karen Visick, PhD and Paul O’Keefe, MD
Clostridium difficile toxin and immune modulation
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) (Innate Immunity)
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) (Adaptive Immunity)
Mentors: Katherine Knight, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Development of non-culture techniques to determine if viable organisms are present in the tissues of patients with endocarditis
Mentors: Karen Visick, PhD and Paul O’Keefe, MD
Developing a diagnostic test for Staphyloccocal scalded skin syndrome
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD and Malliswari Challapalli, MD
Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the Mouse Model by Prior Colonization with Non-Toxigenic Clostridium difficile (NTCD)
Mentors: Katherine L. Knight, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Determination of the prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria in healthy pregnant women delivering at Loyola University Hospital
Mentors: TBD and Paul Schreckenberger, PhD
Development of a Practical Approach for Detection of heteroresistant Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) in patients with MRSA infections
Mentors: Paul Schreckenberger, PhD and Paul O’Keefe, MD
Effect of Fluoroquinolone Restriction on the Incidence of Epidemic Strain BI Clostridium difficile (CDI) infection at Hines VA Hospital
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD, Dale Gerding, MD, and Stuart Johnson, MD
Incidence of Asymptomatic Colonization by Clostridium difficile in Long Term Care Patients and Its Role in Transmission of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD, Dale Gerding, MD, and Stuart Johnson, MD
Distribution and Abundance of Drug - Resistant Hepatitis C Viruses
Mentors: Tom Gallagher, PhD, Stanley Martin Cohen, MD
Assessing Antiviral Activities of Human Lung-Derived Exosomes
Mentors: Tom Gallagher, PhD, Paul O'Keefe, MD
Regulation of the cutaneous response to Community Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) through IL-17 and Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs)
Mentors: Katherine Radek, PhD, Malliswari Challapalli, MD
Immune response to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vaccine design
Mentors: Christopher M. Wiethoff, PhD and Malliswari Challapalli, MD
Human bladder epithelial culture system for studying host pathogen interactions: Cellular and molecular mechanism for recurrent urinary tract infection
Mentors: Phong T. Le, PhD, Linda Brubaker, MD, MS
Mucosal Vaccines for Clostridium difficile infection
Mentors: Dale Gerding, MD and Katherine L. Knight, PhD.
Immune modulation by Vitamin D
Mentors: Pauline Camacho, MD and Makio Iwashima, PhD.
Psychosocial distress Mediated Immune Dysregulation
Mentors: Herbert Mathews, PhD and Linda Janusek, PhD, RN
Contribution of growth regimen to antibiotic resistance in Clostridium Difficile
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD, Paul Schreckenberger, PhD, and Dale Gerding, MD
Omentum for immune modulation and tissue regeneration
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Christopher Wigfield, MD
Cystic fibrosis and immune dysfunction
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Erin Lowery, MD
Cellular and molecular basis of fetal tolerance
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Paula White, MD
Development of anti-tumor CD4 T cells
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Christopher Wigfield, MD
Development of a Clostridium difficile Oral Vaccine using Non-Toxigenic C. difficile as a Vector
Mentors: Katherine Knight, PhD, Lorinda Wright, PhD and Dale Gerding, MD
Immunoregulatory monocytes in autoimmune type I diabetes children
Mentors: Makio Iwashima, PhD and Carla Minutti, MD
Microbiome of the urinary tract (5 projects)
Mentors: Alan Wolfe, PhD, Xiaowu Gai, PhD, and Paul Schreckenberger, PhD, Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, Kimberly Kenton, MD, or Elizabeth Mueller, MD
Developing novel methods to decontaminate bacterial spores
Mentors: Adam Driks, PhD, and Dale Gerding, MD
Adenoviral Immunopathogenesis: Reduced Innate Immune Modulation by Highly Pathogenic Adenovirus 14 Clinical Isolates
Mentors: Jay R. Radke,PhD, and James L. Cook, MD
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