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Joseph "Alex" Duncan, MD, PhD | Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Joseph “Alex” Duncan, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine

Associate Professor, Pharmacology

Director, UNC School of Medicine Physician-Scientist Training Program

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UNC-CH Dept. of Medicine
CB #7030
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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Joseph “Alex” Duncan, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine

Associate Professor, Pharmacology

Director, UNC School of Medicine Physician-Scientist Training Program

Areas of Interest

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, infection and vaccine development, Infection pathogenesis and host immunity, innate and adaptive immune response

About

Dr. Duncan is a physician-scientist investigator with a laboratory focused on understanding the role of the human immune system both in protecting us from infection but also in understanding how host immunity is exploited by pathogens to promote infections.  He is also the director of the Physician-Scientist Training Program which serves as a comprehensive career development program encompassing clinical medicine specialty and subspecialty training through the ABIM Research Track Pathway and scientific postdoctoral training.

Awards and Honors 

  • 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists
  • 2007 Sexually Transmitted Infection and Topical Microbicide Cooperative Research Center Developmental Award
  • 2006 K12 Scholar – UNC Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Developmental Program
  • Biochemical Characterization of Monarch-1, a Regulator of Signaling within the Innate Immune System
  • 2004 Pfizer Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
  • 2002 David A. Ontjes Award (Outstanding UNC Internal Medicine Intern, 2001-2002)
  • 2000 Alpha Omega Alpha appointment
  • 1998 UT Southwestern Graduate School Deans Discretionary Award
  • 1997 Alfred Gilman Memorial Award for Excellence in Research
  • 1997 Twenty-Ninth Annual Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Forum Poster Award: S-Acylation of Heterotrimeric G Protein Alpha Subunits
  • 1996 Haberect Wildhare-Idea Program Research Grant: Rapid Isolation of Small Peptide Affinity Tags

Memberships 

  • Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Care Center