Nichole Klatt, PhD, a professor and the director of the Division of Surgical Outcomes and Precision Medicine Research in the Department of Surgery, is studying how vaginal microbial communities impact pre-exposure prophylactic medications for HIV.

Alexandra Zachwieja, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, blends her passion for the classroom and international research on human origins to bring an anthropological perspective to teaching anatomy at the Medical School’s Duluth campus.

Brian Sick, ’04, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine,