Victor Nizet, MD is Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Basic Research, Department of Pediatrics, and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). A graduate of Reed College, Dr. Nizet received his medical training at Stanford University, completed a Residency and Chief Residency in Pediatrics at Harvard University’s Children’s Hospital in Boston, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington’s Children’s Hospital in Seattle. At UCSD, he leads a large basic and translational research laboratory studying bacterial pathogenesis, innate immunity, and novel approaches to treatment of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and sepsis. He has authored over 560 peer-reviewed publications and collaborated with several biotechnology companies to develop novel antibiotic and immune-based therapies and vaccines.
Dr. Nizet is particularly interested in graduate, postdoctoral, and junior faculty training and interdisciplinary research program development. In his laboratory, he has trained over 60 postdoctoral fellows and 20 PhD students, and more than 30 of his former trainees now hold independent faculty positions conducting extramurally funded research. At UCSD he is the PI of the NIAID T32 Training Program in Infectious Diseases and co-PI of the NICHD T32 Training Program in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, both of which support postdoctoral scholars and clinical fellows, as well as co-PI of the NIAID R25 Raising Advancement and Parity for Infectious Diseases Researchers and Training Director for the NICHD K12 Child Health Research Career Development Award, both of which support junior faculty members. He is also on the leadership committees of the Medical Scientist Training Program, PharmD/PhD Program, IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow Program, and the National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine.
Dr. Nizet’s contributions have previously been recognized by the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics from the Society for Pediatric Research, the DC White Award for Interdisciplinary Research and Mentoring from the American Society of Microbiology, Career Awards from the American Heart Association and American Lung Association, an NIH/NIAID Merit Award, and his election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
