Assistant Professor of Research in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University
Vidmantas Petraitis, MD
Assitant Proffesor of Research in Medicine,
Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program
Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell Universuty, New York, USA
E-mail: vip2007@med.cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Infectious diseases, translational research, development and pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs, applications of new antimicrobial drugs for treatment bone and join infections.
Dr. Vidmantas Petraitis, Assitant Proffesor of Research in Medicine, and Associate Director of the Laboratory Animal Facility and Director of Antimicrobial Pharmacology Unit in the Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University. The translational research mission of this Program is to develop new strategies for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of life-threatening infections in children and adults.
Dr. Vidmantas Petraitis obtained his Medical degree in specialty of Surgeon-Traumatologist at Kaunas Medical Institute (now Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) in Kaunas, Lithuania.
He has been conducting translational research since 1996 in infectious diseases with emphasis in the pharmacology of antimicrobial agents. He is involved in developing new strategies for pharmacodynamically rational methods for administration of existing antibacterial and antifungal agents, as well as new compounds in development. With 26 years of direct laboratory experience in experimental pharmacology, Dr. Petraitis has authored more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Vidmantas Petraitis is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.