Gauri Rao, PharmD, MS, associate professor of clinical pharmacy and director of the Center for Quantitative Drug and Disease Modeling at the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has garnered a five-year, $3,855,901 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The funding supports her project “In vivo assessment and optimization of phage PK/PD for the treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) infection.”

Mabs is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause a variety of infections, especially in people with underlying respiratory diseases. Highly drug-resistant, it is the most difficult nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) to treat.

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