Jason Rosch | Associate Member
Blue Water Vaccines

Dr. Jason Rosch received his undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. He received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Washington University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Infectious Diseases at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is currently an Associate Member in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His research focuses on virulence mechanisms of pathogenic streptococci and antibiotic resistance development, with an emphasis on respiratory infections. His lab utilizes a broad range of tools to query host-pathogen interactions, including classical genetics, transcriptomics, murine models of infection, and high-throughput genetic approaches He has over 20 years of experience working with pathogenic streptococci with work spanning the basic underlying biology to mechanistic understanding host-pathogen interactions during invasive disease and pathogen transmission. He has published over 80 manuscripts and his work is supported by several NIH grants.