Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $498,557 for a two-year grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) entitled, “Genomic diversity of Candida bloodstream infections.”

Ghady Haidar, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $895,725 for a five-year K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the NIH/NIAID entitled “The Gut Microbiome in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Colonization, Persistence, Infection, and Tolerance after Lung or Liver Transplantation.”

Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $100,000 as a recipient of the Transformative Science Award granted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Medicine for her proposal to expand the capabilities of the Pitt-UPMC Center for Fungal Genomics.

Yohei Doi, MD, PhD, has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Medicine with tenure, effective February 1, 2021.

Ghady Haidar MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $110,598 for a two-year study by the Karius Investigator Initiated Clinical Studies Review Committee entitled “Metagenomic sequencing for lung transplant recipients with respiratory tract infections: a pilot study.”

Bernard “Beej” Macatangay MD, was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine and Immunology.

Ghady Haidar MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $203,205 for a three-year study through the Hillman Cancer Center to develop a Hematological Malignancy Infectious Diseases (HMID) Biorepository.

Ryan K. Shields, PharmD, MS, has been awarded funding for a two-year grant by the NIH/NIAID entitled, “Use of site-specific pharmacokinetics to optimize antibiotic combinations and prevent the emergence of resistance against CRE.”

Cornelius (Neil) J. Clancy, MD, has been awarded funding for a two-year grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) entitled, “Polyclonality of carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae bloodstream infections.”