ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2024
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
Michael Woodworth, MD, MSc, FIDSA has the long-term goal to translate expanding understanding of microbial ecology and metagenomics into novel microbiome therapies for patients with antimicrobial resistant bacterial colonization and infection. He helped to conduct the first randomized clinical trial of fecal microbiota transplantation in renal transplant recipients that was published in Science Translational Medicine and is leading two additional FMT translational clinical trials. As an infectious disease physician scientist, Dr. Woodworth's research program spans translational metagenomic data science, small clinical trials, and clinical epidemiology. His work has been supported by competitive funding from the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance, the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).