![Woman looking into microscope](/sites/default/files/styles/home_hero_small/public/home-hero-img/idm-hero.jpg?h=2cd7ce83&itok=NyJOwxTI)
Meet Our Faculty
Meet the faculty who will teach and mentor you, and learn about the innovative research projects they're directing.
Community Engagement Specialist
Assist with HIV public health planning and engagement in the HIV Prevention and Care Project. Design and implement stakeholder engagement for statewide HIV planning, reaching communities most impacted by HIV throughout PA.
![Professor and students](/sites/default/files/styles/callout_slider/public/callout-img/600x600-profstudents-redtie.jpg?itok=lzjSdowX)
![We're Hiring with AIDS ribbon](/sites/default/files/styles/callout_slider/public/callout-img/we%27re%20hiring%20AIDS%20ribbon600x600.jpg?itok=JqWdzuB2)
News
![Photo credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases](/sites/default/files/styles/news/public/news-img/66703dade8477.image_.jpg?h=56b60290&itok=f6rceb-4)
Record-breaking rise in deadly infections in Japan renews focus on the mysteries of strep
“When a patient comes in with group A strep in the blood, unless they have a wound, you often don’t know how it got into the body,” said Lee Harrison, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases and microbiology.
![Danielle Tufts](/sites/default/files/styles/news/public/news-img/Screenshot%202024-05-29%20093044.png?h=9dceb2a7&itok=7NUv_5n7)
Pitt professor to deliver key animal healthcare supplies to Bolivia
The amount of waste from expired and unused lab supplies always bothered Pitt researcher Danielle Tufts. But after reading about a sanctuary that rescues animals from abuse, illegal pet trade and wildlife trafficking in Bolivia, she saw an opportunity.
![Priscila Castanha, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/news/public/news-img/new-synthetic-biomarke.jpg?h=c81de75a&itok=KccA0Uxs)
New synthetic biomarker technology differentiates between prior zika and dengue infections
A newly discovered Zika virus-specific synthetic molecule is capable of differentiating Zika-immune patient samples from samples of patients previously infected with the related dengue virus.