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Peijun Ma, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Peijun Ma, PhD

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

MS 313, Room I5106B

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678

Education

PhD (Biological Sciences) – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Postdoctoral Fellowship – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Research Interests

  • Identifying genetic markers for the development of effective therapies to treat bacterial infections associated with antibiotic resistance and persistence
  • Drug-induced bacterial heterogeneity 
  • Characterization of the microbiome in the context of antibiotic resistance and persistence 
  • Development of sequencing technology to study bacterial heterogeneity at the single-cell level and genome-wide scales 

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