DUKE MYCOLOGY
RESEARCH UNIT
Faculty and Research
Gary Cox, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
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Biography:
Dr. Gary Cox is an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University
Medical Center. He attended medical school at the University of Virginia
and did his internal medicine residency at New England Deaconess. He came
to Duke University Medical Center in 1992 to complete his fellowship in
infectious diseases. He joined the faculty of the Medical Center in 1995 and received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology in 1999.
His research interests center around fungal infections, especially the
pathogenesis of cryptococcosis. He also enjoys seeing HIV-infected persons
in the clinic one day per week.
Dr. Cox is well-known in the clinic for his playful sense of humor. He
is an avid basketball fan, but despite the protests of his colleagues
regularly cheers against Duke in favor of his alma mater, the University
of Virginia. Dr. Cox is married and has two daughters, named Virginia and
Vivian. In his free time he enjoys playing with his daughters, working in
the garden, and making novel Christmas decorations using colorful fungi
isolated from the air and plated onto agar.
