Dr. Iliyan Iliev
Dr. Iliyan Iliev, Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, has received the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
The Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award (PATH) provides early-career scientists with $500,000 over five years to investigate the interplay between humans and pathogens, and how such encounters can lead to disease. Dr. Iliev, a scientist in the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, and his team will be exploring processes that allow fungi to breach intestinal barriers and cause systemic Candidiasis, which is the most common type of systemic fungal infection caused by a yeast called Candida albicans found in humans.
The WDOM congratulates Dr. Iliev and colleagues on receiving this prestigious award.