Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Quinnipiac University
Lisa Cuchara is an infectious disease researcher whose work spans antibiotic resistance, vaccine-preventable diseases and the role of contaminated surfaces in disease transmission. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute and later ran the Histocompatibility Lab at Yale School of Medicine, focusing on transplant testing and graft rejection. Her current projects investigate vaccine hesitancy, the spread of resistant bacteria in the environment and bacterial colonization in healthy individuals.
