Chris Huston
Professor
Department of Med-Infectious Disease
Larner College of Medicine
BIO
Dr. Huston received a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University Medical College in New York, NY in 1994. He did his internship, residency and was chief resident in medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center (then called Medical Center Hospital of Vermont). His infectious diseases clinical fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship in microbiology/parasitology were done at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. Dr. Huston joined the UVM Infectious Disease Faculty in 2003.
His lab studies drug development for the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium that is a major cause of life-threatening diarrhea in young children for which current treatments are poor.
Area(s) of expertise
Immunobiology, Signal transduction and cell signaling, Microbial pathogenesis, Entamoeba histolytica phagocytosis, Inflammation
Bio
Dr. Huston received a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University Medical College in New York, NY in 1994. He did his internship, residency and was chief resident in medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center (then called Medical Center Hospital of Vermont). His infectious diseases clinical fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship in microbiology/parasitology were done at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. Dr. Huston joined the UVM Infectious Disease Faculty in 2003.
His lab studies drug development for the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium that is a major cause of life-threatening diarrhea in young children for which current treatments are poor.
Areas of Expertise
Immunobiology, Signal transduction and cell signaling, Microbial pathogenesis, Entamoeba histolytica phagocytosis, Inflammation