Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Coronavirus
Pitt virologists answer questions concerning coronavirus and how the recent outbreak started.
JoAnne Flynn
As part of the global push to prevent tuberculosis, Distinguished Professor JoAnne Flynn and a group of Pitt and National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered that intravenously injecting the standard tuberculosis vaccine could boost its power.
smiling Emily in front of a gray background
Emily Klonicki spent the summer in a NASA lab helping to develop filters to keep microbes from contaminating Mars.