UCSF School of Medicine Vice Dean's Office is Proud to Host the ZSFG Dean's Seminar Series; Highlighting Basic, Clinical, and Translational Research at ZSFG.

ZSFG Dean's Seminar; Targeting Tuberculosis via the Bug and the Host

Presenter: Babak Javid, MB, Ph.D

• Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Experimental Medicine

Dr. Babak Javid is an infectious diseases physician-scientist, Wellcome Trust Investigator, and Associate Professor in the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF. His research focuses on fundamental mycobacterial pathophysiology, regulation of adaptive protein synthesis, molecular mechanisms of antibiotic tolerance and human humoral immunity to tuberculosis. He went to medical school at the University of Cambridge, and after residency in general (internal) medicine returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD in immunobiology as an MRC training fellow. Following fellowship in infectious diseases, Dr. Javid went to Boston as an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow to work on mycobacterial genetics with Eric Rubin at Harvard. He started his independent research career in 2011 at Tsinghua University in Beijing and joined the faculty at UCSF in July 2020.

• A Virtual Event 

Zoom Link:  http://tiny.ucsf.edu/cx6kem 

All Faculty, Post-Docs, Research Associates, and Staff are welcome!