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Infectious Disease

As COVID has underlined anew, infectious disease presents a huge health threat both globally and locally. The World Health Organization estimates that infectious diseases are responsible for about 1 out of every 5 years of healthy life lost due to disease or disability.

This burden falls most heavily on the countries in the bottom half of the global income distribution. As a result, most infectious diseases and the organisms that cause them receive little attention from large pharmaceutical companies and the wealthy countries that have the research and clinical capacity to develop new treatments for these diseases.

UCSC faculty are working on viral, bacterial and other infectious organisms with goals of understanding how they cause disease, and how the associated health burdens can be treated, reduced and prevented.

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A. Ali Yanik

A. Ali Yanik

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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A. Marm Kilpatrick

A. Marm Kilpatrick

Professor

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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Anjuli Verma

Assistant Professor

Politics

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David Boyd

David Boyd

Assistant Professor

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

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Fitnat Yildiz

Fitnat Yildiz

Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Grant Hartzog

Grant Hartzog

Professor, Associate Dean

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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Jacqueline Kimmey

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Jennifer Derr

Associate Professor

History

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Jeremy Sanford

Jeremy Sanford

Associate Professor

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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John MacMillan

John MacMillan

Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor

Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Jordan Ward

Assistant Professor

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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Justin Perez

Assistant Professor

Latin American & Latino Studies

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Karen Otteman

Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Associate Professor

Anthropology

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Laura Sanchez

Laura Sanchez

Associate Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

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Manel Camps

Professor

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

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Martha Zúñiga

Professor

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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Matt Sparke

Professor

Politics, Executive Director of Global and Community Health

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Michael Patnode

Michael Patnode

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Regina Day Langhout

Professor

Psychology

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Russell Corbett-Detig

Russell Corbett-Detig

Assistant Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

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Susan Carpenter

Assistant Professor

Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

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Valerie Cortez

Valerie Cortez

Assistant Professor

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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Victoria Auerbuch Stone

Professor

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

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William Sullivan

Distinguished Professor

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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