Division of Infectious Diseases News & Announcements

Save the date the 2023 Joint Microbiome Symposium, Dec. 4-5.

This month’s Featured Research Trainee is Petra Molnar, PhD, who studies metabolic regulators to develop antimalarial therapies.

Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Audrey Odom John, studies the microbial metabolism of parasites like malaria to improve diagnoses and available treatments.

This year’s Poster Day and Scientific Symposium featured all manners of bugs, breakthroughs, and big discoveries.

Learn about a novel disorder caused by rare genetic variants, the importance of global neonatal outcomes, and more, in this week’s edition of In the News.

The first model of the early-life microbiome helps researchers identify pre- and post-weaning microbial changes that affect immune system development.

Read about a first-of-its-kind seizure prediction model and a study that found parents and teens with healthy relationships have better long-term health outcomes.

This week’s In the News highlights research on MIS-C, an association between serotonin and heart valve disease, a genetic basis for sleep disorders, and neonatal resuscitation guidelines.

A U.S. Department of Defense grant will support CHOP researchers in their study of noninvasive methods to diagnose mitochondrial diseases.

Learn about novel findings and new grants from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers.