Bartlett Awarded Fulbright Grant

Marilyn Bartlett, professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to improve the diagnoses of infectious diseases in immune compromised patients (such as those with AIDS) in Kenya, Africa.

Her work includes two aspects: one focuses on the role of pneumocystis carinii as a cause of pneumonia and the other focuses on the role of recently recognized intestinal parasites such as microsporidia, cyclospora spp and cryptosporidium parvum in serious diarrhea.

Bartlett will re-establish a diagnostic laboratory that she had previously set up in Eldoret, Kenya. One of the goals supported by the grant is to bring together people of both cultures to collaborate on building and maintaining a laboratory that would focus on diagnosing parasitic intestinal infectious diseases as they affect people in Kenya, especially those with AIDS.

Bartlett is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 1999/2000 academic year through the Fulbright Program.

Bartlett has developed and managed clinical diagnostic parasitology and mycology laboratories at the IU School of Medicine during the past thirty years. She has held twelve research grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health.