About Trius
Victor Nizet, M.D.
Dr. Nizet is a Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pharmacology & Drug Discovery at UCSD School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Nizet received his medical training at Stanford University School of Medicine, completed a Residency and Chief Residency in Pediatrics at Harvard University's Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington's Children's Hospital in Seattle. Dr. Nizet joined the UCSD faculty in 1997, and leads a large basic research laboratory focused on discovering virulence factors of pathogenic streptococci and staphylococci, elucidating molecular and cellular mechanisms of host innate immunity, and developing novel approaches to anti-infective therapy. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in the biomedical literature on these topics. Dr. Nizet's work has been recognized by the Sidney Farber Award, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Young Investigator Award, the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Scholar Award, the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, the American Lung Association Career Investigator Award, the American Asthma Foundation Senior Investigator Award, the 2008 E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics, and election to the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.