Center for Women’s Infectious Diseases Research announces Pilot Grant awardees

Pilot Grant Program 2015-16 awardees with the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research leaders. From left are: Scott Hultgren, PhD, the center’s director, Deborah Lenschow, MD, PhD, Larissa Thackray, PhD, Haina Shin, PhD, and Michael Caparon, PhD, the center’s associate director.

The Washington University Center for Women’s Infectious Diseases Research (cWIDR) has announced its 2016-17 Pilot Grant awardees: Justin Fay, PhD, an associate professor of genetics, and Kristine M. Wylie, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics. The center’s annual symposium, in December, also featured research talks by the 2015-16 awardees of the cWIDR Pilot Grant Program. The program aims to bring together researchers across departments to focus on topics related to women’s infectious diseases.