Duke Honors Distinguished Professor, Joseph Heitman

April 2004 — Duke University has awarded distinguished James B. Duke professorships to 25 faculty members, including Joseph Heitman, director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, professor in the departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Medicine and an associate investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The professorship was established in memory of James B. Duke, founder of the Duke Endowment, and is awarded to select tenured faculty who demonstrate outstanding scholarship.

Heitman’s appointment follows other recent achievements, including an election to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology, recipient of the IDSA’s 2003 Squibb Award, a long term EMBO post-doctoral fellowship, the Gustavo Cudkowicz Memorial Prize in Immunobiology, and the AMGEN award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Heitman is also the recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and an editor of the journal Eukaryotic Cell from the ASM Press.