Dr Fungus: A New App Bringing Fungal Education to Your Fingertips

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Ready to level up your knowledge of fungal infections and antifungal treatments? The newly launched Dr Fungus app designed by Matthew Pullen, MD, a member of ICT's Editorial Advisory Board, offers clinicians, researchers, and infection preventionists a free, practical resource, complete with case studies, medication guides, and trial updates.

An app to learn more about fungi and antifungal treatments? There is an app for that. Matthew Pullen, MD, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Infection Control Today® (ICT®) Editorial Advisory Board, returns to chat with ICT about the latest in infectious disease and control. In this installment of the discussion, Pullen describes his latest project: a free app designed for DrFungus.org. The webpage is “Your online reference for all things mycological.”

Besides being a medical doctor and infectious disease researcher, Pullen is also interested in computers. “My area of research is usually related to programming and building web apps and mobile apps,” Pullen said. “I've been working with a mitosis study group, our big international fungal research body, to reinvent their Dr fungus website, which is a medical education resource for fungal disease, reinventing it as a mobile app.”

The app was launched on September 18, 2025, named “Dr Fungus—just Dr Fungus—on both the Apple and Android stores, and it has easily reachable information on fungal infections, anti-fungal medications, and even information on the fungi themselves.” Pullen said. “Then every month, they publish cases of the month with photographs, patient descriptions, and then a couple of questions to help you think through the case.”

In the future, Pullen and his colleagues will “start adding information on active clinical trials so that practitioners can refer patients to trials.”

They will always be happy to get feedback on the webpage and the app, “So, if anyone uses it and has a problem or thinks it could be better, let me know.”

The app is geared towards medical professionals, including infection preventionists, “but it's open to anybody, and you can always learn more,” Pullen said. “It's mostly aimed at fungal researchers and doctors [and] nurses who see patients who have had or could have fungal infections.”

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