Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity Training Program
Award #: T32 AI106688
Project period | August 2014 – July 2024 |
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Predoc slots | 0 |
Postdoc slots | 2 |
This program will train academic physician-scientists to perform research in infectious diseases and immunity in children. Infectious diseases still account for extensive morbidity and mortality throughout the world, and trained researchers are needed who can apply powerful new scientific methods to bring these diseases under control. One of the areas of emphasis, of this training program, will be the use of powerful new methods to study microbial and human genomics.
Principal Investigator/Program Director

David A. Hunstad, MD
Division Director, Infectious Diseases
Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Professor, Molecular Microbiology
Arnold W. Strauss, MD Endowed Professor for Mentoring
Co-Scientific Director, Children’s Discovery Institute
- Phone: (314) 454-6050
Co-Program Director

Anthony R. French, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Rheumatology
Vice Chair of Physician-Scientist Training Program
Alan L. Schwartz Chair in Pediatrics
Co-Scientific Director, Children’s Discovery Institute
Mentors
Program Faculty | Department or Institution | Role in Program |
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Atkinson, John | Internal Medicine / Rheumatology | Mentor |
Caparon, Michael | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
Cooper, Megan | Pediatrics – Rheumatology | Mentor |
Dantas, Gautam | Pathology & Immunolgy | Mentor |
Diamond, Michael | Internal Medicine / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Dinauer, Mary | Pediatrics – Hematology / Oncology | Mentor |
Doering, Tamara | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
French, Anthony | Pediatrics / Rheumatology | Mentor |
Fritz, Stephanie | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Gordon, Jeffrey | Developmental Biology | Mentor |
Hultgren, Scott | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
Hunstad, David | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Klein, Robyn S. | Internal Medicine | Mentor |
Lenschow, Deborah | Internal Medicine / Rheumatology | Mentor |
Lodge, Jennifer K. | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
Morley, Sharon Celeste | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Odom, Audrey | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Stappenbeck, Thaddeus | Pathology & Immunology | Co-Program Training Director, Mentor |
Storch, Gregory | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | PI/PD / Mentor / Executive Committee |
Tarr, Phillip | Pediatrics / Gastroenterology | Mentor |
Virgin, Skip | Pathology and Immunology | Mentor / Executive Committee |
Wang, David | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
Weil, Gary | Internal Medicine / Infectious Diseases | Mentor |
Weinstock, George | Genetics Sequencing Center | Mentor |
Yokoyama, Wayne | Internal Medicine / Rheumatology | Mentor |