Gary Schoolnik
Associate Director of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Schoolnik, Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, leads a team of scientists at Stanford, the Broad Institute at MIT, and the Harvard School of Public Health in gathering information on the genes that enable the tuberculosis bacteria to persist in the body, quietly primed for action. One of every three people on earth has latent TB, in which the bacterium lies silently in wait, often for decades, constantly monitoring the body's immune system for the right moment to burst into full-blown disease.
The partnership led by Dr. Schoolnik hopes to amass the world's largest public database on the genes involved in latent TB—an essential tool to help researchers worldwide develop new treatments for this disease.
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