Sudha Chaturvedi PhD

Dr. Sudha Chaturvedi is the Director of the Mycology Laboratory, which serves as the comprehensive reference facility for fungal diagnostics for all NYSDOH-licensed clinical laboratories, including hospitals, academic medical centers, county health departments, and commercial laboratories. Since 2016, the Mycology Laboratory also serves as an Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network Laboratory for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessing the prevalence of drug-resistant Candida spp. in the Northeast. Some of the laboratory's major undertakings include innovations in fungal diagnostics, antifungal testing, drug-resistance mechanisms, fungal pathogenesis, and molecular epidemiology.