ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020

The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.

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Kathryn M. Dupnik, MD

Weill Cornell Medicine

(Affiliation at the time of recognition)

About the awardee

Kathryn M. Dupnik, MD, is a physician-scientist who studies differential human immune response to mycobacterial pathogens, focusing on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. leprae. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Virginia, she completed Internal Medicine residency training at NY Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center. She did her Infectious Diseases fellowship training at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Immunology and faculty in the Center for Global Health. Dr. Dupnik’s translational research agenda includes the study of the pathologic immune reactions of leprosy and assessment of the dynamics of coinfection with M. tuberculosis and HIV. She is a former Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine and recently authored the M. leprae chapter for the 9^th edition of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases.