The Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC)  Seminar will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom.

“Continuing tales of the tubercle bacillus: have tubercle, will travel”

Kyu Rhee, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine,
Vice Chair for Research Department of Medicine,
Interim co-chief Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Co-director Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance
Weill Cornell Medicine

Kyu Rhee is an infectious disease physician-scientist and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine where he also leads 3 physician-scientist training programs, including the DoM PSTP, BWF MD-only physician-scientist training program and an NIAID-funded R38 StARR. He received his MD PhD degrees from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied the biochemical mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in E. coli, and subsequently completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell where following a brief postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Carl Nathan, he has spent his career studying clinically relevant features of the basic biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He also serves as Vice chair of the ASCI Physician-Scientist Development Committee and as a member of AAIM Research Committee and the National Association of Clinician Scientists.

The October TRAC seminars are presented by the Microbiology, Immunology, Animal Modeling & Imaging (MIAMI) Core.

Join via Zoom: Updated link will require Passcode
Topic: TRAC Seminar Series
Time: Every week on Wednesday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94704979755
Meeting ID: 947 0497 9755
Passcode: 179967