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Iron, RNA, and Adaptation: How Staphylococcus aureus Uses IsrR to Survive Host-Imposed Iron Limitation
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Gustavo Rios-Delgado from Jeff Boyd’s Lab at Rutgers University–New Brunswick...

Ray Sullivan
May 15, 20252 min read


How Mycobacterium tuberculosis Disarms Macrophages: Ahri Han Investigates Actin and Migration
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, MD/PhD student Ahri Han from Samantha Bell’s Lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical...

Ray Sullivan
May 15, 20252 min read


New Tools, New Lipids: Joshua Chamberlain Explores Bacterial Sphingolipids for Smarter Drug Delivery
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Joshua Chamberlain, a researcher in the Klein Lab at Rutgers University–Camden,...

Ray Sullivan
May 14, 20252 min read


Building a Better Mouse Model for Mycobacterium abscessus: Julianna Proietto’s Innovations in Chronic Infection Research
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Julianna Proietto, Senior Animal Specialist at the Center for Discovery and...

Ray Sullivan
May 14, 20252 min read


Honoring Innovation and Resilience: Dr. Jason Yang Receives the 2025 Theobald Smith Young Investigator Award
The Theobald Smith Society is proud to present the 14th Young Investigator Award to Dr. Jason H. Yang, Assistant Professor and Chancellor...

Ray Sullivan
May 14, 20252 min read


Is There a Histone Code in Bacteria? Valerie Carabetta’s Search for Epigenetic Regulation in Bacillus subtilis
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Valerie Carabetta —Associate Professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan...

Ray Sullivan
May 14, 20253 min read


Microbes Below and Above: Donna Fennell’s Legacy of Remediation Science
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Professor Donna Fennell, Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at...

Ray Sullivan
May 13, 20254 min read


Understanding the Hidden Epidemic: Drug-Resistant Klebsiella in the Community
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, the society president, Jennifer Sun, introduced Professor Barry Kreiswirth , the...

Ray Sullivan
May 12, 20255 min read


Rutgers: Electrospray Coating Microneedles for DNA Vaccine Delivery
Microneedle arrays are a minimally invasive and promising alternative to traditional hypodermic needles for drug and vaccine delivery. ...

Ray Sullivan
May 5, 20252 min read


CDI: Next-Generation Rifamycins for Mycobacterial Infections
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing non-tuberculous Mycobacterium causing severe pulmonary infections, especially in...

Ray Sullivan
May 4, 20252 min read


CDI: C. auris Gcn5: Drug Resistance, Virulence, and Therapy Target
The human infectious fungus Candida auris poses a significant global human health burden. C. auris is classified as an urgent threat...

Ray Sullivan
May 1, 20251 min read


Quest: US Hepatitis Delta Burden
Quest Diagnostics Inc., Secaucus, NJ investigated the prevalence of Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) infection in the United States among...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 30, 20252 min read


Merck: Adult Pneumococcal Vaccine V116: Impact and Coverage
Scientists from Merck, Rahway, NJ, evaluated the potential impact of their novel adult-specific pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, V116, on...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 25, 20251 min read


Princeton: Worm Learns Pathogen Avoidance from Bacteria
Coleen Murphy’s lab at Princeton seeks to find genes that contribute to maintaining the biological processes that exhibit age-related...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 24, 20252 min read


Princeton: Yeast Fermentation Enhanced by Light-Controlled Nanobody Inhibition
Transcriptional control is widely used in dynamic metabolic engineering, but it suffers from inherent time lags because existing...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 19, 20252 min read


Shionogi: US Hospital Burden of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB)
This retrospective cohort study undertaken by Shionogi, Inc., Florham Park, NJ , analyzed data from the PINC AI™ Database between January...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 18, 20251 min read


Merck: HDC-MALS for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Characterization
Invasive pneumococcal diseases remain a major global health concern. Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides are key immunogenic...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 17, 20251 min read


Rutgers: HIV Hide and Seek
HIV persists in latently infected memory CD4+ T cells despite effective antiretroviral therapy, leading to rapid viral rebound upon...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 17, 20252 min read


IAVI: Lassa Virus Vaccine Development
Lassa fever is a serious zoonotic hemorrhagic disease caused by the Lassa virus, an enveloped RNA virus in the Arenaviridae family. It is...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 13, 20253 min read


HMH-CDI: Oral Triple Therapy for Mycobacterium abscessus
Researchers at the Center for Discovery & Innovation, Nutley, NJ, investigated a novel oral drug combination of tebipenem-avibactam,...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 12, 20251 min read
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