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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
121
Citations
57222
World Ranking
136
National Ranking
66

Medicine

D-Index
121
Citations
57434
World Ranking
3593
National Ranking
1984

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)

Overview

David R. Andes is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and microbiology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections and studies, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, as well as antimicrobial peptides and activities.

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of the endemic mycoses: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • A marine microbiome antifungal targets urgent-threat drug-resistant fungi (2020, Science)
  • A Dual-Responsive Antibiotic-Loaded Nanoparticle Specifically Binds Pathogens and Overcomes Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • Core Recommendations for Antifungal Stewardship: A Statement of the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • Contributions of the Biofilm Matrix to Candida Pathogenesis (2020, Journal of Fungi)

David R. Andes has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Robert Żarnowski, Hiram Sánchez, Jeniel E. Nett, Alexander J. Lepak, and Cameron R. Currie.

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Nature Communications, and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

This scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM).

Best Publications

  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Peter G. Pappas;Carol A. Kauffman;David R. Andes;Cornelius J. Clancy

  • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of candidiasis: 2009 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

    Peter G. Pappas;Carol A. Kauffman;David Andes;Daniel K. Benjamin

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Prospective Surveillance for Invasive Fungal Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients, 2001–2006: Overview of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET) Database

    Dimitrios P. Kontoyiennis;Kieren A. Marr;Benjamin J. Park;Barbara D. Alexander

  • Invasive Fungal Infections among Organ Transplant Recipients: Results of the Transplant‐Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET)

    Peter G. Pappas;Barbara D. Alexander;David R. Andes;Susan Hadley

  • Clinical practice guideline: Adult sinusitis

    Richard M. Rosenfeld;David Andes;Neil Bhattacharyya;Dickson Cheung

  • Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Peter G. Pappas;Carol A. Kauffman;David R. Andes;Cornelius J. Clancy

  • Impact of treatment strategy on outcomes in patients with candidemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis: a patient-level quantitative review of randomized trials

    David R. Andes;Nasia Safdar;John W. Baddley;Geoffrey Playford

  • A Recently Evolved Transcriptional Network Controls Biofilm Development in Candida albicans

    Clarissa J. Nobile;Emily P. Fox;Jeniel E. Nett;Trevor R. Sorrells

  • Inhibition of mutation and combating the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

    Ryan T Cirz;Jodie K Chin;David R Andes;Valérie de Crécy-Lagard

  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics in otitis media.

    William A. Craig;David Andes

  • Critical role of Bcr1-dependent adhesins in C. albicans biofilm formation in vitro and in vivo.

    Clarissa J. Nobile;David R. Andes;Jeniel E. Nett;Frank J. Smith

  • Antifungal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Established and Emerging Indications

    David Andes;Andres Pascual;Oscar Marchetti

  • Animal model pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: a critical review.

    D. Andes;W.A. Craig

  • Voriconazole Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

    J. Smith;N. Safdar;V. Knasinski;W. Simmons

  • Putative Role of β-1,3 Glucans in Candida albicans Biofilm Resistance

    Jeniel Nett;Leslie Lincoln;Karen Marchillo;Randall Massey

  • Function of Candida albicans Adhesin Hwp1 in Biofilm Formation

    Clarissa J. Nobile;Jeniel E. Nett;David R. Andes;Aaron P. Mitchell

  • Development and characterization of an in vivo central venous catheter Candida albicans biofilm model.

    D. Andes;J. Nett;P. Oschel;R. Albrecht

  • Epidemiology and outcomes of invasive candidiasis due to non-albicans species of Candida in 2,496 patients: data from the Prospective Antifungal Therapy (PATH) registry 2004-2008.

    Michael A. Pfaller;David R. Andes;Daniel J. Diekema;David L. Horn

  • Complementary adhesin function in C. albicans biofilm formation.

    Clarissa J. Nobile;Heather A. Schneider;Jeniel E. Nett;Donald C. Sheppard

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeniel E. Nett
Jeniel E. Nett University of Wisconsin–Madison
William A. Craig
William A. Craig University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter G. Pappas
Peter G. Pappas University of Alabama at Birmingham
John W. Baddley
John W. Baddley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas J. Walsh Weill Cornell Medicine
Sujata M. Bhavnani
Sujata M. Bhavnani University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Kieren A. Marr
Kieren A. Marr Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Barbara D. Alexander
Barbara D. Alexander Duke University
Carol A. Kauffman
Carol A. Kauffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Clarissa J. Nobile
Clarissa J. Nobile University of California, Merced

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