Christina Cuomo, Ph.D., is the Viatris Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University. She is also a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute, where she leads fungal genomic work within the Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases and serves as assistant director. Cuomo’s research focuses on understanding the evolution of human fungal pathogens causing the highest threat to global public health. Her group uses genomic approaches to study the basis of drug resistance and virulence by examining how genomes evolve, variation within pathogen populations and unique features of pathogenic genomes.

Cuomo received her A.B. in biology from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard University. Following a postdoc at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Harvard University, she joined the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, now part of the Broad Institute, and from there moved to Brown University in 2023. She is a fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Fungal Kingdom Program and in the American Academy of Microbiology and serves as editor in chief at the ASM journal Microbiology Spectrum®.