Marzena Pazgier is a Professor at the Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University. Prior to joining USU, she was a faculty member of the Institute of Human Virology in the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland. She earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Lodz University of Technology and completed her postdoctoral training in the structural biology of infectious disease at the Molecular Crystallography Laboratory in the National Cancer Institute, NIH at Frederick, MD. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of molecular recognition in human disease with the goal of translating that knowledge into medical applications.