James B. Duke Professor and Chair
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Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD is James B. Duke Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center. His laboratory focuses on the evolution of sex in fungi and roles of sexual reproduction in microbial pathogens, how cells sense and respond to nutrients and the environment, targets and mechanisms of action of immunosuppressive and antimicrobial drugs, and the genetic and molecular basis of microbial pathogenesis and its emergence.