Associate Director
Element Materials Technology/Jones Microbiology Institute
Marisa Winkler, MD, PhD is an associate director at Element Iowa City (JMI Laboratories). Dr. Winkler completed the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP, M.D., Ph.D.) at Case Western Reserve University (2009-2017). Her Ph.D. was in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology under the supervision of Dr. Robert Bonomo studying β-lactamase structure-function relationships and the underlying mechanisms of resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections. After graduation from medical school in 2017 she completed internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and infectious diseases fellowship at the joint Massachusetts General Hospital-Brigham and Women’s Hospital program. She subsequently completed a year of clinical microbiology training in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.