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June 16th 2023
Dr. Alice Lehman, second-year fellow, was one of four awardees of the highly competitive and prestigious LEAP Fellowship through the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This $100,000 training award is given to four promising young infectious diseases physicians each year and is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
November 19th 2022
The Minnesota Department of Health and select academic partners, including Dr. Thielen, were selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to join a new academic-public health partnership, the Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence network. This network will focus on modernizing the public health system’s disease-investigation capabilities by integrating next generation sequencing and other advanced microbial detection technologies within CDC and in state and local public health systems.
The project led by Dr. Thielen will focus on using novel molecular diagnostic techniques to describe the epidemiology of respiratory pathogens and antimicrobial resistance longitudinally in the region.
May 17th 2022
Dr. Beth Thielen received a seed grant from the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), these funds will be used to help set up diagnoses in people with PI (Primary Immunodeficiency) who haven't gotten answers through standard genetic testing. Dr. Thielen had this to say: "Establishing a molecular diagnosis for patients with [primary immunodeficiency] empowers patients and care providers by providing more accurate prognostic information, access to personalized therapies targeting affected molecular pathways, and better-informed genetic counseling for relatives and offspring"
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Undergraduate Researcher Olivia Toles received a UMN SUPER award, this support will allow Olivia to pursue different research interests and projects over the course of the summer.
Lea Goren received a UMF Student Research Grant for her proposal "Comparison of the diagnostic yield of Karius vs. standard-of-care microbiological testing for suspected infectious disorders."
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by M Health Fairview (Released Jul 30, 2021)
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by University of Minnesota (Released Jul 7, 2021)