Sarah D'Orazio, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
Sarah D’Orazio received her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. For her dissertation work, she studied the transcriptional regulation of urease genes in Proteus mirabilis and uropathogenic E. coli under the direction of Carleen Collins, Ph.D. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Michael Starnbach, Ph.D., where she studied the role of MHC-Ib-restricted CD8+ T cells in clearance of intracellular bacterial pathogens.
In 2004, D’Orazio was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where she established her research program studying host-pathogen interactions during foodborne Listeria monocytogenes infection. She is currently a Chellgren-Endowed Full Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Kentucky. She also serves as a faculty mentor for the NIGMS-funded UK SuRE Resource Center, a unique program that supports R15/R16-eligible institutions to help their faculty prepare better grant applications and help their business offices administer grant awards more efficiently.