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| The Host-Pathogen Interactions Training Program offers a unique curriculum that will immerse students in interdisciplinary host-pathogen research, striving to integrate advances in pathogenesis with genomics, bioinformatics, and engineering. Our training program will have a strong translational research component, as trainees will interact not only with experts in their own research area, but with scientists in other disciplines, such as computer sciences, bioengineering, environmental sciences, etc. Review the comprehensive curriculum. |
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Dr. Najib El-Sayed recently lead a  research team in sequencing the genome of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum, the pathogens that cause the debilitating disease schistosomiasis. This work, published in the July 15 issue of  Nature, has already uncovered targets for new treatments for the disease, which causes fever and fatigue. Read more details about Dr. El-Sayed's reasearch. |
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