Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
My name is Michelle Matzko (MD, PhD), and I am a second year Infectious Disease fellow at Mass General Brigham and postdoctoral research fellow in the Bhattacharyya lab at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Our lab is part of the larger Infectious Disease and Microbiome program at the Broad and specifically investigates antimicrobial resistance and challenges new ways to diagnose infectious diseases in humans. I am personally interested in applications of cutting-edge biotechnologies for the advancement of Infectious Disease diagnostics, particularly invasive fungal infection diagnostics. My current work aims to transform fungal infection diagnostics from slow, microbiologic culture-based to rapid, molecular-based to impact timely clinical care. Forward, I plan to pursue fundamental questions of emergence of new fungal pathogens and their mechanisms of resistance with hope to solicit new targets for antifungal drug development. I received my MD and PhD from Penn State and completed my Internal Medicine residency at University of California, San Francisco, where I have previously been involved with studies of applications of sequencing diagnostics for infectious diseases for >10 years.
