Andrew Camilli

Dr. Andrew Camilli (Andy) is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University. He trained with two leaders in the field of microbiology: Daniel Portnoy at the UPenn School of Medicine and John Mekalanos at Harvard Medical School. With over 20 years of experience, Andy is an internationally recognized leader in the field of microbiology, whose research centers on two major human pathogens, Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause of bacterial pneumonia. He has published 132 peer-reviewed papers and 25 reviews and book chapters, including papers in Nature, Cell, Science, eLife, PNAS, and many top journals in the field of microbiology such as Nature Microbiology and PLoS Pathogens. He has six US patents awarded and two applications filed. He has been continuously funded by NIH since 1996 and was a funded HHMI investigator from 2005-2018. He has received several prestigious honors and awards, including a Pew Scholar Award, Eli Lilly and Company Research Award, and Election to the American Academy of Microbiology. He currently is a standing member of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Review Committee at NIH/NIAID, and instructor of the Advanced Bacterial Genetics course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.