- Teaching
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Research
The Department is superbly staffed and equipped for research.
- 176
faculty,
post-doctoral fellows,
graduate students and
staff in the Department.
- Laboratories in and affiliated with the Department are engaged in state of the art research studying
bacteria,
fungi,
parasites,
viruses, and
host defenses:
- Bordetella pertussis, E. coli, Haemophilus, Helicobacter pylori, Neisseria, Rhodobacter, Streptococci, Salmonella
- Histoplasma
- Ascaris, Entamoeba, filarial nematodes, Leishmania, malaria, Plasmodium, Toxoplasma
- cytomegaloviruses, Epstein Barr virus, hepatitis C virus, herpes viruses, HIV, HTLV, Sindbis virus, varicella zoster virus, yellow fever virus
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| The Department is located on 3 floors of the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building. (Addresses and Contact Information).
Up-to-date instrumentation for research in molecular biology: phosphorimager, gel documentation equipment, fermenters, constant temperature rooms, tissue culture facilities, oligonucleotide synthesizers, HPLC, FPLC, BL3 containment facilities.
Modern computing resources: over 130 nodes on fast ethernet, ethernet and localtalk networks; email, printers, file servers, Web servers, remote access server, GCG server; direct access to campus-wide computing facilities and the Internet.
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Annual research budget of almost 12 million dollars from government and private sources.
The governmental, peer-reviewed funding is a reflection of the importance of the basic research conducted by members of the Department, as well as the reputation of the members of the Department.
A broad portfolio of patents and research technology and materials that are available for licencing.
Many ongoing collaborative links with industrial partners.
Commitment to an aggressive strategy to bring new findings in basic research to the marketplace, to rapidly advance from basic understanding to real benefits to healthcare.
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