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LA JOLLA\u2014Associate Professor Janelle Ayres<\/a> has been awarded a 2018 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award by the National Institutes of Health for her innovative research into host-pathogen interactions that promote the health of the host.<\/p>\n

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Janelle Ayres<\/p>\n

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The highly sought-after grant, which awards $3.5 million in direct costs over five years, “supports\u00a0scientists with outstanding records of creativity\u00a0pursuing new research directions to develop\u00a0pioneering approaches to major challenges\u00a0in biomedical and behavioral research,” according to the NIH.<\/p>\n

“This prestigious award is a testament to Janelle’s groundbreaking vision of novel solutions in a time of increased challenges posed by infectious disease and antibiotic resistance,” says Salk President Rusty Gage<\/a>. \u201cHer work is paving the way for entirely new approaches to improve human health.”<\/p>\n

As a member of Salk\u2019s\u00a0NOMIS Zentrum f\u00fcr Immunbiologie und mikrobielle Pathogenese<\/a>, Ayres uses an approach grounded in mathematical and evolutionary predictions to understand how bacteria have evolved ways to promote our health. She has published pivotal studies showing that in addition to the immune system, which kills pathogens, animals have what she calls the cooperative defense system, which protects them from infectious diseases by alleviating physiological damage without killing pathogens. By understanding the underlying mechanisms behind this cooperative defense system, her work points to a new way to treat infectious and non-infectious diseases (such as pathologies associated with cancer and aging) without killing microbes\u2014and therefore without relying on antibiotics, which drive dangerous microbial resistance.<\/p>\n

Ayres has uncovered a number of discoveries in this area. In 2015<\/a>, her lab found a strain of\u00a0E. coli\u00a0<\/em>bacteria in mice that was capable of improving the animals\u2019 tolerance to infections of the lungs and intestines by preventing wasting\u2014a common and potentially deadly loss of muscle tissue that occurs in serious infections. In 2017, her team discovered<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Salmonellen<\/em>\u00a0bacteria can overcome a host\u2019s natural aversion to food when sick, which results in more nutrients for the bacteria and a gentler infection for the host.\u00a0Additionally, she recently published a paper in Zelle<\/em><\/a> that described how giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent.<\/p>\n

\u201cExactly as its name implies, the NIH high-risk, high-reward research program supports ideas that might be too bold for traditional funding mechanisms,\u201d says Ayres. \u201cI am honored to have my work placed in this category because high-risk projects have the most potential for both science and humankind.”<\/p>\n

Ayres, who holds the Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair at Salk, recently received a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to investigate new approaches to tackle deadly bacterial and viral infections, including sepsis and influenza. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, a Searle Scholarship and a Ray Thomas Edward Foundation award.<\/p>\n

Ayres earned her PhD in microbiology and immunology from Stanford University School of Medicine.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":20195,"template":"","faculty":[79],"disease-research":[366],"class_list":["post-20193","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-janelle-ayres","disease-research-infectious-disease"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSalk's Janelle Ayres receives NIH Pioneer Award for novel approaches to infectious disease - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salks-janelle-ayres-receives-nih-pioneer-award-for-novel-approaches-to-infectious-disease\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk's Janelle Ayres receives NIH Pioneer Award for novel approaches to infectious disease - 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