About

Jen is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She received her MD and PhD degrees from the Weill Cornell-Rockefeller-Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD/PhD Program. Her PhD work was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Sabine Ehrt at Weill Cornell Medicine, focusing on mechanisms of acid resistance and cytochrome C maturation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She then completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. After completing her clinical work, she joined the Fidock laboratory where she focuses on understanding the role of tRNA modifications in modulating artemisinin resistance. She has received a Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship (2019) and an NIH/NIAID K08 (2021) award. She also works on projects involving novel haplotypes of PfCRT and mechanisms of resistance to novel ENT1 transport inhibitors. As a clinician, she treats patients with general infectious diseases and HIV. When she is not in the lab or at the hospital, she can be found spending time with her husband, two sons and two dogs 

Clinical Website: 

https://www.infectiousdiseases.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/jennifer-l-small-saunders-md 

In the media:

https://www.ddcf.org/siteassets/19-1009-psf-press-release-final-embargoed-until-oct-10.pdf?id=6276

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