Award-Winning Scholars
Our scholars are decorated with many awards. Here is a partial list:
The Berman Lab studies mechanisms of drug tolerance, the ability of fungal pathogens to survive despite appropriate levels of drug treatment. The work is performed in the model yeast pathogenic species Candida, which causes life-threatening infections in patients with reduced immunity, for example, after cancer chemotherapy. The study of multidrug resistance also has important implications for the study of how cancer cells develop tolerance to the drugs used to treat them.
Prof. Berman was honored by election to several international societies including the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Microbiology. She also was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America.
- The Berman lab, together with labs in Belgium, Spain, and TAU's Chemistry Department, was awarded a JPIAMR (Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance) grant in the first cycle that addressed antifungal drug resistance. The grant focuses on studying treatment regimens that utilize cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity to different antifungal and adjuvant drugs.
- Judith Berman was named an Honorary Professor at the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology at Exeter University in the UK.
- Judith Berman chaired the Gordon Research Conference on the Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution in June 2023.
- Judith Berman was the Foundation Lecturer of the British Society of Medical Mycology (BSMM) Meeting in September 2023.
- Judith Berman was a Keynote Speaker at the 2024 German Microbiology Societies Meeting in Würzburg, Germany.
