Division of Infectious Diseases

Welcome From Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE – Chief The Infectious Diseases (ID) Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1971 with the recruitment of Drs. Richard Root and Rob Roy MacGregor.
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2023 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine Pioneers Drew Weissman, MD, PhD & Katalin Karikó, PhD

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Fellowship Programs

Our fellowship program offers a wide range of clinical and research training programs to prepare future physicians in the field of infectious diseases.

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