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Justin Bailey, MD PhD
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, SARS-CoV-2, respiratory syncytial virus, humoral immune response
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William Ramses Bishai, MD PhD
- Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Molecular biology of mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Joel N. Blankson, MD PhD
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Natural Control of HIV-1 Infection
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Richard E. Chaisson, MD
- Director, Center for Tuberculosis Research
- Professor of Medicine
Research Publications
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Andrea Cox, MD PhD
- Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Hepatitis C virus, Immunotherapy, Protective immunity, T cell, Vaccine, Viral Immunology, Virus
Research Publications
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Christine Durand, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Organ transplantation in persons living with HIV and hepatitis C
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Kelly Gebo, MD MPH
Research Interests: Health care utilization, clinical outcomes research, HIV, COVID, long COVID, mpox, quality improvement, health care policy
Research Publications
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Noreen A Hynes, MD MPH
- Director, Geographic Medicine Center of the Division of Infectious Diseases
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: epidemiology and control of tropical diseases, Vaccine preventable diseases
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Petros Karakousis, MD
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Tuberculosis pathogenesis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence, Host-directed therapies, COVID-19 pathogenesis
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Styliani Karanika, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: <p>Immunology, Tuberculosis, HIV, Vaccines, host-directed therapies</p>
Research Publications
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Eric Nuermberger, MD
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Drug development for tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections, including Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer)
Research Publications
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Dave Thomas, MD
- Co-Director, Clinical Core, Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research
- Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and HIV
Research Publications
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Tuberculosis vaccine shows promise as once-fatal disease evades treatment
2026-04-14 | Baltimore Sun | Styliani Karanika
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Johns Hopkins Team Develops Therapeutic, Nasally-Delivered DNA Vaccine for Tuberculosis
2026-04-08 | Johns Hopkins Medicine News Release | Styliani Karanika
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Experts Discuss Why it is Particularly Important to Get the Flu Shot This Year
2025-09-17 | HuffPost | Geeta Sood
