Allison F. Carey
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Allison F. Carey, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Dr. Carey is a physician-scientist who received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral training with John Carlson, gaining critical insights into how the olfactory system of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito detects human blood-meal hosts, a key step in the malaria transmission cycle. After a Roux fellowship at the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carey completed her residency training in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined Sarah Fortune’s research group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she developed expertise in another globally significant pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At the University of Utah, Dr. Carey runs a research group with a focus on mycobacterial genetics and is a pathologist at ARUP Laboratories.

Specialties

  • Pathology, Clinical

Board Certification

American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)

Dr. Carey is a physician-scientist who received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral training with John Carlson, gaining critical insights into how the olfactory system of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito detects human blood-meal hosts, a key step in the malaria transmission cycle. After a Roux fellowship at the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carey completed her residency training in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined Sarah Fortune’s research group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she developed expertise in another globally significant pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At the University of Utah, Dr. Carey runs a research group with a focus on mycobacterial genetics and is a pathologist at ARUP Laboratories.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pathology -Assistant Professor
Board Certification
American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)

Education history

Undergraduate Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Animal Bioscience - Pennsylvania State University B.S.
Professional Medical Neuroscience - Yale University School of Medicine M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Parasitology - Pasteur Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Residency Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Resident
Chief Resident Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Chief Resident
Fellowship Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Research and Clinical Fellow
Post Graduate Training Microbiology - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. James KS, Jain N, Witzl K, Cicchetti N, Fortune SM, Ioerger TR, Martinot AJ, Carey A (2025). TnSeq identifies genetic requirements of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for survival under vaccine-induced immunity. NPJ vaccines, 10(1), 103.
  2. Eke IE, Abdalla BJ, Soverina S, Olive AJ, Cicchetti N, Carey AF, Abramovitch R (2025). Defining the mechanism of action of the nitrofuranyl piperazine HC2210 against Mycobacterium abscessus. npj antimicrobials and resistance, 3(1), 55.
  3. Carey AF, Wang X, Cicchetti N, Spaulding CN, Liu Q, Hopkins F, Brown J, Sixsmith J, Sutiwisesak R, Behar SM, Ioerger TR, Fortune S (2022). Multiplexed Strain Phenotyping Defines Consequences of Genetic Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis for Infection and Vaccination Outcomes. mSystems, e0011022.
  4. Hicks ND, Carey AF, Yang J, Zhao Y, Fortune S (2019). Bacterial Genome-Wide Association Identifies Novel Factors That Contribute to Ethionamide and Prothionamide Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio, 10(2),
  5. Cadena AM, Hopkins FF, Maiello P, Carey AF, Wong EA, Martin CJ, Gideon HP, DiFazio RM, Andersen P, Lin PL, Fortune SM, Flynn J (2018). Concurrent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis confers robust protection against secondary infection in macaques. PLoS pathogens, 14(10), e1007305.
  6. Carey AF, Rock JM, Krieger IV, Chase MR, Fernandez-Suarez M, Gagneux S, Sacchettini JC, Ioerger TR, Fortune S (2018). TnSeq of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates reveals strain-specific antibiotic liabilities. PLoS pathogens, 14(3), e1006939.
  7. Bargieri DY, Thiberge S, Tay CL, Carey AF, Rantz A, Hischen F, Lorthiois A, Straschil U, Singh P, Singh S, Triglia T, Tsuboi T, Cowman A, Chitnis C, Alano P, Baum J, Pradel G, Lavazec C, Ménard (2016). Plasmodium Merozoite TRAP Family Protein Is Essential for Vacuole Membrane Disruption and Gamete Egress from Erythrocytes. Cell host & microbe, 20(5), 618-630.
  8. Martin CJ, Carey AF, Fortune S (2016). A bug's life in the granuloma. Seminars in immunopathology, 38(2), 213-20.
  9. Carey AF, Singer M, Bargieri D, Thiberge S, Frischknecht F, Ménard R, Amino (2014). Calcium dynamics of Plasmodium berghei sporozoite motility. Cellular microbiology, 16(5), 768-83.
  10. Carey AF, Ménard R, Bargieri DY (2013). Scoring sporozoite motility. Methods Mol Biol, 923, 371-83.
  11. Carey AF, Carlson JR (2011). Insect olfaction from model systems to disease control. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 108(32), 12987-95.
  12. Carey AF, Wang G, Su CY, Zwiebel LJ, Carlson JR (2010). Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature, 464(7285), 66-71.
  13. Wang G, Carey AF, Carlson JR, Zwiebel LJ (2010). Molecular basis of odor coding in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107(9), 4418-23.

Review

  1. Nguyen VL, Eick KL, Gan M, Miner TA, Friedland AE, Carey AF, Olivier KN, Liu (2025). Macrolide resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus: current insights and future perspectives. JAC-antimicrobial resistance, 7(2), dlaf047.