IDCRC Newsletter: December 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, the IDCRC Leadership Group would like to extend their gratitude for your efforts and dedication this year. We wish our network and partners a happy and safe holiday season. We will see you in 2026!

"With the winter holidays and the end of 2025 approaching, I want to thank everyone for your hard work and enthusiasm this year. It is my sincere pleasure to work with all of you. May you and your families have a wonderful holiday season!"—Jim Campbell, MD, MS, LG vice chair (pictured middle)

"As a tumultuous year comes to an end, I am grateful to all of the dedicated colleagues who make our IDCRC network such a terrific team. Thank you for your ongoing support for the science and our study participants."—Jodie Dionne, MD, MSPH, LOC director (pictured right)

IDCRC Spotlight: PROMISE Study
Site Principal Investigator, Rebecca C. Brady, MD

Help us commit to our New Year's resolution!

Not sure what to submit? Below are a few ideas...

• Have you or a team member received an award recently? 
• Did you present your research at a conference? Have you recently delivered a lecture?
• Do you know an investigator who was recently featured in the media?
• Do you know someone who is doing excellent work and deserves a shoutout to the network?
• Do you want to promote an event, a job opening on your team, or a research opportunity at your institution?

If you answered YES to any of the questions above or have another idea in mind for a future IDCRC newsletter, contact our team!

Publications

NOTE: Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect IDCRC support: 

"Supported by the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium through the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, under award number UM1AI148684. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health."

View recent IDCRC Publications:

• Intestinal organoid models as tools to interrogate the physiology of human mucosal tissues and host-microbe interactions
• Safety and immunogenicity of the Sm-p80 GLA-SE schistosomiasis vaccine

Training

IDCRC Mentee Profile: Sabiha Rabia Hussain, MD

"I love learning from experts in clinical research design and writing. For example, we spoke with an editor from JAMA, and her advice was incredibly helpful!"

News

Medscape | Real-World Data for Nirsevimab, Maternal RSV Vaccine Show Sizeable Drop in Infant Hospitalizations

The data came from the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN), which prospectively enrolls children younger than 18 years old who have an emergency, outpatient, or inpatient visit for acute respiratory illness at one of the seven included sites in Rochester, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Nashville, Kansas City, Houston, and Seattle. The researchers analyzed trends from infants less than 6 months old who had a positive RSV PCR test, including those with other viral coinfections.

IDSA | A View from the Trenches: Critical Information for Respiratory Virus Season with C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH

NBC News | Norovirus is spreading earlier again this year, wastewater data shows with Robert Atmar, MD

Dr. Robert Atmar, professor in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, said a combination of factors may have led to GII.17’s dominance. “The two possibilities are that something in the virus changed to make it more transmissible, or there were changes in the population that a larger proportion were susceptible,” he said. “And probably it’s a combination of both. But whether it’s going to persist this year, I think, is one of the big questions in our scientific community.”

Georgia Trend | Carlos del Rio, MD, MACP, named one of
Georgia's Most Influential Leaders in Healthcare

Job Postings

Newly Posted! Infectious Diseases Research Job Openings

• Fred Hutch - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 

• Gates Foundation - Senior Program Officer, Vaccine Discovery 

• Medical University of South Carolina  -  Research Program Coordinator II - Department of Medicine: Division of Infectious Diseases 

• NYU Langone Health - Infectious Diseases Clinician Educator 

• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine - Post-Doctoral Fellow - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine 

• University of Rhode Island - Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Visit the IDSA Career Center to browse other ID/HIV Medicine job postings.

Funding Opportunities

Annual Meeting

Save the Date: 2026 Annual Meeting

IDCRC Studies

Active Studies Recruiting Volunteers

• A Phase 4 Study of a 3-Day vs. 7-Day Regimen of Doxycycline for the Treatment of Chlamydial Infection (DMID 22-0019)

Fully Enrolled Studies in Follow-up

• A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 1 Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of Sanaria(R) PfSPZ-LARC2 Vaccine, a Late-Arresting, Replication-Competent, Genetically Attenuated Plasmodium Falciparum Vaccine by Controlled Human Malaria Infection in Malaria-Naïve Healthy Adults Conditions (DMID 23-0010)
• Efficacy Study of IM Administered CssBA+dmLT Against Moderate-severe Diarrhea in Human Infection Model With ETEC Strain B7A in Healthy Adults (DMID 23-0006)

• A Phase 1 Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of an Inactivated West Nile Virus Vaccine, HydroVax-001B WNV in Healthy Adults (DMID 24-0008)

• Trial to Evaluate the Immunogenicity of Dose Reduction Strategies of the MVA-BN Monkeypox Vaccine (DMID 22-0020A)

• A Phase 1, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study to Assess the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of a Single Ascending Dose of EV-D68-228 in Healthy Adult Volunteers (DMID 23-0005)

• A Prospective, Randomized, Open-label Phase 4 Study of the Immunology and Safety of Maternal RSV Vaccination (ABRYSVOTM), Infant Nirsevimab (BEYFORTUSTM) Immunization, or Both Products During the First Year of Life (PROMISE) (DMID 24-0003)

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Communication Resources

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