Assistant Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr Janowski completed his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, his pediatric residency training at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and then his fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at St Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine. He is currently Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and is currently completing a master's degree in scientific and clinical investigation. Dr Janowski's clinical interests include zoonotic diseases, neuroinfectious diseases, and diseases of unknown etiology. From a research standpoint, he discovers and characterizes the human diseases caused by novel viruses. He is funded on a career development K08 grant from the NIH to study the biology of astrovirus VA1, a newly identified neurotropic virus. He has built models to study its disease capacity in cell culture and with in vivo models, corroborating the potential for this virus to cause neurological diseases in humans. He has also identified the potential for this virus to cause cardiovascular disease. He is now further dissecting the biology of the virus and is characterizing the function of the s2m element in the viral genome. This element is shared amongst other RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.