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Matthew K. Waldor, M.D., Ph.D.

Matthew K. Waldor

Dr. Waldor is also Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. As an undergraduate at Yale University, he studied philosophy and biology. He carried out his doctoral work with Larry Steinman and received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. After an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an infectious disease fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, he did postdoctoral research with John Mekalanos at Harvard University.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

Matthew Waldor studies the evolution, cell biology, and pathogenicity of enteric bacteria that cause human disease.

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HHMI INVESTIGATOR
2007– Present
Brigham and Women's Hospital

2000–2007
Tufts University School of Medicine

Education
bullet icon B.S., philosophy and biology, Yale University
bullet icon Ph.D., neuroscience, Stanford University
bullet icon M.D., Stanford University
Awards
bullet icon Squibb Award, Infectious Disease Society of America
bullet icon MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health

Research Abstract
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Cell Biology of Enteric Pathogens

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