USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm SC in two different studies. In a state-wide sample, they found that five percent of study participants were either recently or currently infected with threadworm.
View the recording of Dr. Crystal Glover’s Arnold Aging Lecture titled Equitable Study Design in Aging and Dementia Research: Purpose, Process and Outcomes.
Co-Primary Investigator Tad Dallas, Ph.D. is a theoretical ecologist who uses the best available system to answer questions in population, community and disease ecology. His research on disease ecology is especially pertinent given the COVID-19 pandemic.
This research will support the training of over 10 undergraduates in georeferencing and data curation, and support independent research projects and presentations at national conferences. The data will be curated in the open, allowing free and open access. Finally, we will use these data to engage people in codeFests, aimed at teaching computer programming concepts using this helminth data resource.
Institute director Melissa Nolan, Ph.D., MPH has been selected to serve on the Forum on Microbial Threats for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The forum convenes leaders from government agencies, industry, academia and nonprofit/philanthropic organizations to discuss critical scientific and policy concerns related to infectious diseases.
Dr. Tad Dallas, Assistant Professor in the Department, was awarded a ~$200K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct a project titled "Linking environmental variability and species-environment relationships to understand fluctuating populations".
Co-Primary Investigator Matthew Haldeman M.D., is awarded $25,000 in funding by the University of South Carolina’s Big Data Health Science Center to investigate parasitic infections affecting rural South Carolina residents. Dr. Haldeman’s research will be the first contemporary investigation of its kind in South Carolina since 1984.
Sponsored by the offices of the USC President and Vice President for Research, the Research Institutes Funding Program invested an unprecedented $10 million in internal funding for new research institutes, including the Institute for Infectious Disease Translation Research.
Co-Primary Investigator Homay Valafar, Ph.D., partners with founding director of South Carolina’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, Amit Sheth, Ph.D., to research the use of emerging technologies to improve America’s Healthcare system and develop individualized care.
Co-Primary Investigator Timothy Mousseau, Ph.D., acknowledged for his prodigious work studying the long-term impacts of radiation released at nuclear disaster sites. Dr. Mousseau and his colleagues have documented effects across multiple facets, from genetics to species interactions.