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The Professorship Installation of Jennifer Philips, MD, PhD, as the Theodore and Bertha Bryan Professor of Medicine took place on September 16th. ⁠Dr. Philips presented: “Tackling TB: Lessons in Persistence”.⁠ Dr. Philips is Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. Her laboratory studies the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb has afflicted humans for thousands […]

“Our study makes an important contribution by demonstrating how a critical Mtb virulence factor promotes the ability of the bacteria to disseminate in macrophages in the lungs. This study enhances our understanding of how Mtb evades immunity, which may enable better therapies and an effective vaccine for TB.”-Jennifer A. Philips, MD