Melicent Peck, MD, PhD
Attending Physician
Medicine
School of Medicine

She currently leads the early clinical development of novel antibiotics against multi-drug resistant bacteria and contributes to strategies to ensure that new antibiotics reach patients. She also leads the early clinical development of new immunotherapies. She is an attending physician at the UCSF Infectious Diseases Clinic.

• Risk stratification biomarkers for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia.
  Clinical & translational immunology 2020 Cao Y, Guimaraes AO, Peck MC, Mayba O, Ruffin F, Hong K, Carrasco-Triguero M, Fowler VG, Maskarinec SA, Rosenberger CM
• A Phase 1, Randomized, Single-Ascending-Dose Study To Investigate the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of DSTA4637S, an Anti-Staphylococcus aureus Thiomab Antibody-Antibiotic Conjugate, in Healthy Volunteers.
  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2019 Peck M, Rothenberg ME, Deng R, Lewin-Koh N, She G, Kamath AV, Carrasco-Triguero M, Saad O, Castro A, Teufel L, Dickerson DS, Leonardelli M, Tavel JA
• A Prognostic Model of Persistent Bacteremia and Mortality in Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Guimaraes AO, Cao Y, Hong K, Mayba O, Peck MC, Gutierrez J, Ruffin F, Carrasco-Triguero M, Dinoso JB, Clemenzi-Allen A, Koss CA, Maskarinec SA, Chambers HF, Fowler VG, Baruch A, Rosenberger CM
• Prognostic Power of Pathogen Cell-Free DNA in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2019 Guimaraes AO, Gutierrez J, Maskarinec SA, Cao Y, Hong K, Ruffin F, Carrasco-Triguero M, Peck MC, Fowler VG, Baruch A, Rosenberger CM
• Sustained Circulating Bacterial Deoxyribonucleic Acid Is Associated With Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2019 Gutierrez J, Guimaraes AO, Lewin-Koh N, Berhanu A, Xu M, Cao Y, Kim J, Yan D, Chang JK, Dinoso JB, Koss CA, Clemenzi-Allen A, Chambers HF, Peck MC, Baruch A, Rosenberger CM
• Limited HIV infection of central memory and stem cell memory CD4+ T cells is associated with lack of progression in viremic individuals.
  PLoS pathogens 2014 Klatt NR, Bosinger SE, Peck M, Richert-Spuhler LE, Heigele A, Gile JP, Patel N, Taaffe J, Julg B, Camerini D, Torti C, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Sinclair E, Hecht FM, Lederman MM, Paiardini M, Kirchhoff F,…
• Isolation and characterization of mutant Sinorhizobium meliloti NodD1 proteins with altered responses to luteolin.
  Journal of bacteriology 2013 Peck MC, Fisher RF, Bliss R, Long SR
• Diverse flavonoids stimulate NodD1 binding to nod gene promoters in Sinorhizobium meliloti.
  Journal of bacteriology 2006 Peck MC, Fisher RF, Long SR
• The RNA polymerase alpha subunit from Sinorhizobium meliloti can assemble with RNA polymerase subunits from Escherichia coli and function in basal and activated transcription both in vivo and in vitro.
  Journal of bacteriology 2002 Peck MC, Gaal T, Fisher RF, Gourse RL, Long SR
• Luteolin and GroESL modulate in vitro activity of NodD.
  Journal of bacteriology 2002 Yeh KC, Peck MC, Long SR
• Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymA megaplasmid.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001 Barnett MJ, Fisher RF, Jones T, Komp C, Abola AP, Barloy-Hubler F, Bowser L, Capela D, Galibert F, Gouzy J, Gurjal M, Hong A, Huizar L, Hyman RW, Kahn D, Kahn ML, Kalman S, Keating DH, Palm C, Peck MC…
• The composite genome of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2001 Galibert F, Finan TM, Long SR, Puhler A, Abola P, Ampe F, Barloy-Hubler F, Barnett MJ, Becker A, Boistard P, Bothe G, Boutry M, Bowser L, Buhrmester J, Cadieu E, Capela D, Chain P, Cowie A, Davis RW, …