People

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator
Laboratory Medicine

Charles Chiu, M.D./Ph.D. is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at University of California, San Francisco and Director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Chiu currently leads a translational research laboratory focused on the development and clinical validation of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and host response profiling assays for diagnosis of infections, outbreak investigation, and pathogen discovery.

Felicia Chow, MD

Co-Principal Investigator
Neurology

Dr. Felicia Chow is a board-certified neurologist and neuro-infectious diseases physician who specializes in caring for patients with a wide range of neurological infections, including brain abscesses, neurocysticercosis, neurosyphilis, neurological complications of HIV and infectious causes of meningitis, encephalitis and myelitis. She directs the UCSF Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic on the Parnassus campus and also sees patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr.

Cassandra Recchioni

Nurse Practitioner

Meg Wilson

Research Coordinator
Neurology

Miriam Oseguera

Research Coordinator
HDF Comprehensive Cancer Ctr

Venice Servellita

Bioinformatics Programmer, Clinical Laboratory Scientist