Fatima Hussain, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Tufts University Dept of Biology, Medford MA is a microbial ecologist. She has worked on both vaginal probiotic development and vaginal microbiota transplantation (VMT) to treat bacterial vaginosis. She leads a research program studying the ecology and evolution of the vaginal microbiome. In this talk, she will highlight results from the first double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of VMT for recurrent bacterial vaginosis.
This program is sponsored by the NEB-ASM and the UMASS Dartmouth Depts of Biology & Medical Laboratory Science |