The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL) was officially formed in 2015 by a group of principal investigators who shared a vision for improving the health of the world’s poorest populations by improving our understanding of the infectious diseases that impact them most. IDEEL is a virtual laboratory involving member investigators at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, Imperial College London, University of Massachusetts, University of Florida, Tulane University, and Western Connecticut State University. Co-founded with the support of the late Steven Meshnick, MD, PhD, the idea was to provide a platform for collaborative interdisciplinary research that explores how pathogens interact with human hosts. Investigators come from a wide-breadth of backgrounds including infectious disease physicians, epidemiologists, molecular parasitologists, cell biologists, geneticists, and geographers.
