Stavroula Hatzios, assistant professor in the departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three scientists nationally to be named an ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator for 2023.
The Young Investigator Program recognizes three outstanding early career investigators conducting infectious disease research. The award honors the recipients’ contributions to the field of infectious disease research at an early stage in their careers.
A faculty member in the Microbial Sciences Institute, Hatzios is currently applying her group’s tools to study molecular mechanisms of adaption to oxidative stress in vivo. Members of the Hatzios lab are also developing new methods and animal models to measure microbial import and metabolism of redox-active metabolites in the host and to study how these processes influence host physiology. Their long-term goal is to uncover redox-regulated pathways that can be targeted to improve the detection and treatment of diseases associated with infection-induced oxidative stress, such as gastric and colorectal cancers.