Gautam Dantas, Ph.D

Professor, Washington University School of Medicine

Gautam Dantas, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Dantas combines genomic and computational technologies to reveal why antibiotic resistance develops so readily, making a number of diseases very difficult to cure. The Dantas lab has uncovered fascinating microbial mechanisms, important for both medicine and for science in general.