ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
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
Jyoti S. Mathad, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her primary research interests include the immune and metabolic changes of pregnancy and their impact on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis. She has been conducting NIH-funded research on maternal-child tuberculosis in Pune, India, since 2010. For the past 5 years, she has led the PRACHITi study there, which is investigating the impact of pregnancy and HIV on the immune response to M. tuberculosis. Her K23 award focuses on identifying behavioral and immunologic risk factors that predict which women are at highest risk of developing active TB postpartum. She has also used the PRACHITi cohort as a platform to understand placental immunology. She is an investigator in the International Maternal, Pediatric, and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials network (IMPAACT) and led the IMPAACT 2001 trial which examined the pharmacokinetics, tolerability and safety of the 3-month regimen of weekly isoniazid and rifapentine for prevention of tuberculosis in pregnant and postpartum women.