Dr. Ayesha Khan is a postdoctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at UTHealth (Houston, Texas), studying antimicrobial resistance in the Laboratory of Cesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhD, FIDSA. Dr. Khan obtained her PhD from UT Health and MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2020 and Bachelor’s in Microbiology and Global Studies with a focus on Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015. She is pursuing a fellowship in medical microbiology and hopes to be at the intersection of innovative research in AMR diagnostics and personalized patient care. Dr. Khan was born in Bangalore, India in an impoverished neighborhood where infectious diseases governed many facets of daily life. Growing up in 10 countries, from Russia to Saudi Arabia, she saw that infectious diseases were a macroscopic inequity that manifested through microscopic germs. She serves as the President of the American Society for Microbiology, Texas Medical Center chapter and ASM National’s Texas Young Ambassador.