Rod Welch

Rodney A. Welch is professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a specialist in bacterial pathogenesis and toxins produced by the bacterium Escherichia coli.[1] He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and since 2004 has held the chair of Robert Turell Infections Diseases.[2] In 2014 he was named as part of a team at Wisconsin-Madison that was awarded a grant of up to $16 million from the National Institutes of Health to search for new antibiotics.[3][4]

References
  1. Check, Erika (19 December 2002). "Biodefence: Ploughshares into swords". Nature. 420 (6917): 736. doi:10.1038/420736a. PMID 12490912.
  2. "Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology - University of Wisconsin-Madison". Medmicro.wisc.edu. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  3. "Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology". Phys.org. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  4. "Wisconsin Team to Search for New Antibiotics from Untapped Microbes". Med.wisc.edu. Retrieved 9 August 2017.



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