Assistant Professor
University of Alabama in Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Juan Jose Calix is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine Heersink School of Medicine. Though born in New Orleans, LA, he lived half of his youth in his family's native El Salvador. He obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree from Loyola University New Orleans in 2005. After working a year in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, he earned his MD and PhD in Microbiology from the Medical Scientist Training Program at UAB between 2006-2014. He performed his doctoral thesis work in the laboratory of Moon Nahm, MD with the support of a NIAID F31 Fellowship. He subsequently joined the Physician Scientist Training Program at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) to complete his Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship, during which he worked in the laboratories of Mario Feldman, PhD (2017-2019) and then Gautam Dantas, PhD (2019-2021). In August 2021, he returned to UAB as Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Division of Pulmonology/Allergy/Critical Care and opened the Calix Lab. His NIAID-funded research takes pre-clinical and translational approaches to investigate the link between microbial surface glycans and clinical/microbiological of traits of pathogens (e.g., drug resistance, disease outcomes, etc.) and their propagation among at-risk hosts.