Leadership
Dr. Boucher is an internationally recognized leader in antimicrobial drug development, with deep expertise in study design, and antimicrobial stewardship. She is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and Treasurer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Boucher serves on the Board of Trustees of the Physicians of Tufts Medical Center and The College of the Holy Cross.
Ralph Isberg
PhD | Director
Dr. Isberg’s expertise spans many infectious diseases and AMR. He is working to address AMR in pathogens including Acinetobacter baumanii. Dr. Isberg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for 27 years.
John Leong
MD, PhD
Dr. Leong is Edith Rieva and Hyman S. Trilling Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the interaction of pathogenic Escherichia coli, Borrelia burgdorferi (the Lyme disease spirochete) and Streptococcus pneumoniae with host immune and epithelial cells in order to understand the infectious process and develop novel therapies to prevent or treat these infections.
David R. Snydman
MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
Dr. Snydman has 35 years of experience in observational and interventional studies in translational research, including trials that resulted in FDA licensure of a biologic product. He has worked on epidemiologic aspects of antibiotic resistance for decades, focusing on hospital-acquired infections, anaerobes, C difficile, and MRSA. His current research is focused on the transmission of antibiotic resistance and C. difficile among nursing home patients and in health systems, as well as the impact of antimicrobial stewardship.
Core Faculty
Bree Aldridge
PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, TUSM
Mycobacterial virulence, drug tolerance, computational modeling, and combination therapy.
Gillian Beamer
VMD, PhD, DACVP
Assistant Professor of Pathology, TUCSVM
Stem cells and in vitro modeling for treatment of AMR
Clay Bennett
PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry, TUSAS
Chemistry and chemical biology of carbohydrates
Andrew Camilli
PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, TUSM
Developing ways to treat and prevent the spread of pathogens
Shira Doron
MD
Attending Physician, Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, and Antimicrobial Steward, TMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, TUSM
Antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases, and hospital epidemiology
Yoav Golan
MD, FIDSA
Attending Physician, TMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, TUSM
Hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance, MRSA, C. difficile infections, invasive fungal infections, hospital epidemiology
Kenneth Kaitin
PhD
Professor & Director, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Trends in the development and regulation of new pharmaceutical products
Joan Mecsas
PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, TUSM
Targeting bacterial-specific biosynthetic pathways with small molecules and compounds as a combination therapy
Nikhil Nair
PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, TUSE
Engineering microbial physiology
Fiorenzo Omenetto
PhD
Frank C. Doble Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Dean of Research, TUSE
Materials at the interface between technology and life sciences
Amy Pickering
PhD
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TUSE
Environmental surveillance, AMR profiles, and water supplies
Carol Bascom-Slack
PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Developmental, Molecular & Cellular Biology, TUSM
Improving science education experiences for undergraduates and high school students via initiatives such as the Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistance in the Environment (PARE) project
Cheleste Thorpe
MD
Attending Physician, TMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, TUSM
Gut immune activation, host-pathogen interactions and probiotics
Roberto Viau Colindres
MD
Attending Physician, TMC
Assistant Professor of Medicine, TUSM
Gram negative resistance, antibiotic stewardship
Qiaobing Xu
PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, TUSE,
Associate Professor, TUSM
Developing synthetic materials for the delivery of therapeutic biomacromolecules
Annie Wayne
DVM, MPH, DACVECC
Clinical Assistant Professor
Emergency & Critical Care, TUCSVM
Antibiotic stewardship, infection control, client communication best practices
Caroline Genco
PhD
Arthur E Spiller Professor; Chair of Immunology, TUSM
Immune mediated diseases and the microbiome
Irene Georgakoudi
PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, TUSE
Tissue engineering and cancer diagnostics