GIDI announces 18 recipients of the GIDI-UP Summer Research Award for Undergraduate-Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow Pairs
Find out more about the recipients HERE.
FIGURING OUT OMICRON: A UVA VIROLOGIST ON HOW SCIENTISTS ARE STUDYING THE VARIANT
Peter Kasson, GIDI Member and GIDI fund awardee, is a virologist and biophysicist who studies how viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 enter cells and what can be done to stop them. Read how he explains what lab-based scientists are doing to answer questions about omicron here.
Jochen Zimmer, named Investigator by HHMI
We are delighted to share the news that GIDI member Jochen Zimmer, PhD, Professor of molecular physiology and biomedical physics, has been named an Investigator by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the largest private biomedical research institution in the nation! This is considered one of the highest honors a biomedical scientist can achieve. Congratulations, Dr. Zimmer!
What We Know about How the Delta Variant of COVID is Spreading
“Vaccines are by far our most effective tools,” Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, GIDI Member, says, “but they clearly are not perfect, and they’re not our only tools. We really have to have the combination of interventions to make it through this.”
GIDI honored to be featured at the 2020 American Public Health Association Conference
The Global Infectious Diseases Institute and Director Dr. Alison Criss are honored to be one of the twelve thought leaders featured at the 2020 American Public Health Association conference. This video outlines the mission and vision of GIDI.
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Summer Research Award for Undergraduate-Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow Pairs, Call for Applications. This award will support an undergraduate researcher with a predoctoral or postdoctoral fellow mentor to conduct summer research. See InfoReady for more information.
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We are delighted to share the news that GIDI member Jochen Zimmer, PhD, Professor of molecular physiology and biomedical physics, has been named an Investigator by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the largest private biomedical research institution in the nation!