Infectious Disease
Pushing Boundaries in Infectious Disease Research
Preclinical
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center supports vaccine development for special populations, most notably pediatrics by way of our African green vervet neonatal nursery. The first of its kind, this unique resource provides nonhuman primate models appropriate for the development of vaccines intended for children and infants. Our experts can help devise, implement and analyze your study and its results using this unique resource.
Key Areas of Research
- Neonatal influenza vaccine development
- Adaptive immunity
- Infectious disease and cancer
- Molecular mechanisms of acute inflammation
- Secondary and coinfections
- B cell responses to carbohydrate antigens
- T cell apoptosis
- Immune memory
Clinical
Clinical research at Wake Forest is support by the Ryan White HIV Primary Care and Infectious Diseases Specialty Clinic—one of the largest in the state—that follows approximately 1,900 patients with HIV. The Infectious Disease department also offers preventive and curative medicine in the fields of tropical medicine and infectious diseases, military and migration medicine through the International Travel Clinic.
Key Areas of Research
- Sexually transmitted disease
- HIV
- Antibiotic-resistant organisms
- Transmission dynamics
- Hepatitis C
- Immuno-compromised patients
- Education and clinical decision making
- Sepsis
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Fungal infection
- Prosthetic device infection
- Bone and joint infection
- Antiretroviral therapy