Specific Aims and Areas of Interest
1. Specific Aim 1 – To promote medical mycology research and development in the following areas.
- Diagnosis
- To develop and evaluate better diagnostic assays for invasive fungal infection detection in multicenter studies.
- To design and perform investigator-initiated or industry-initiated, multicenter, clinical and outcomes studies to establish the utility of new diagnostic tests.
- To support discovery or evaluation and commercialization for greater access.
- New/Emerging Fungal Pathogens
- Monitor the recovery and identification of novel/emerging fungal pathogens
- Design and standardize approaches to confirm the identity of novel/emerging fungal pathogens
- Antifungals
- Promotion of broader susceptibility testing availability
- Antifungal resistance detection
- New antifungal drug development
2. Specific Aim 2 – To write consensus fungal diagnostic guidelines and laboratory protocols
3. Specific Aim 3 – Support Medical Mycology education
- Workshop/Course
- Conference
