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.
About the awardee
Radha Rajasingham, MD, is an Infectious Diseases physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
She is building a clinical research career in reducing AIDS-related deaths in sub Saharan Africa through screening and prevention programs for opportunistic infections. She has developed expertise in the evaluation of cost-effective HIV diagnostic and treatment algorithms to maximize efficiency in resource-poor settings.
Dr. Rajasingham has led an international consortium to estimate the global burden of cryptococcal infection, and the burden of advanced HIV disease in Africa. She is an international expert on the prevention of cryptococcal meningitis. Since 2012 she has been a co-investigator in cohort studies, clinical trials, and cost-effectiveness analyses evaluating cryptococcal prevention programs in Uganda, South Africa, and Ethiopia. For her K23 award, she is PI of a randomized clinical trial evaluating high dose AmBisome to prevent cryptococcal meningitis in Uganda. Her work has influenced WHO guidelines and US DHHS guidelines.