Sashi Ramani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Her areas of interest are maternal and child health with a focus on gastrointestinal infections and vaccines. Dr. Ramani has extensive experience working on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of rotaviruses and noroviruses. The goals of her research program are to understand factors that contribute to disease susceptibility and identify mechanisms to improve immune responses to infectious agents and vaccines, with the overall objective of developing targeted interventions to improve public health. Her work using human intestinal organoid cultures from diverse donors provides a physiologically relevant and genetically representative system to understand host-pathogen interactions at a molecular level and enables preclinical testing of interventions. Through collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of researchers and through population studies to evaluate findings in human subjects, Dr. Ramani’s work takes a bench-to-bedside approach to understanding enteric infectious diseases.