Adam Bailey, MD, PhD
Adam Bailey became an associate director of the UW Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in 2023. He is also an assistant professor of pathology in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and a trainer in the Cellular & Molecular Pathology, Cellular & Molecular Biology and Microbiology graduate programs.
Bailey joined the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the School of Medicine and Public Health in 2021, where he helps direct the clinical laboratories at UW Hospital and runs his own research laboratory focused on viral pathogenesis, zoonosis, and medical countermeasures. This includes using patient data and patient specimens to study the pathogenesis of infectious diseases in humans; developing new animal models to explore the pathophysiology of viral diseases; using animal models to evaluate new therapeutics and vaccines; utilizing in vitro technologies and high-throughput screens to investigate molecular mechanisms governing host-pathogen interactions; and developing new tools for the diagnosis of emerging infectious diseases.
Bailey is a graduate of the UW Medical Scientist Training Program and completed his clinical pathology residency and fellowship in the Physician-Scientist Training Pathway (PSTP) at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. As a post-doc, Adam also developed several independent lines of investigation blending his clinical and research background to develop new models of viral hemorrhagic fever, for which he was awarded the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5) in 2020.