Vidya Lata Atluri

Vidya Lata Atluri, MD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine, affiliated with the Division of Infectious Diseases. Her research focuses on targeting bacterial virulence factors, particularly Type IV secretion systems in Brucella pathogens, to develop antivirulence therapies.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Disarming pathogens via virulence inhibition
  • Type IV secretion system dynamics
  • Antibiotic resistance solutions
  • Protein-protein interaction assays
  • Host-pathogen interaction models
• Grants:
  • R01 AI050553 (NIH/NIAID)
  • XNO-83099 (CIHR Canada)