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Research in Motion: Alison Criss, PhD

August 25, 2025 by daf4a@virginia.edu

Our research uncovers how the foot soldiers of our immune system, called neutrophils, recognize and respond to microbes, and how pathogens, including the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, manages to subvert these responses so that it can cause disease in humans. —Alison Criss, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

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