Overview
Tony Moody, MD is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Professor in the Department of Integrative Immunobiology at Duke University Medical Center. Research in the Moody lab is focused on understanding the B cell responses during infection, vaccination, and disease. The lab has become a resource for human phenotyping, flow characterization, staining and analysis at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI). The Moody lab is currently funded to study influenza, syphilis, HIV-1, and emerging infectious diseases.
Dr. Moody is the director of the Duke CIVICs Vaccine Center (DCVC) at (DHVI) and co-director of the Centers for Research of Emerging Infectious Disease Coordinating Center (CREID-CC). Dr. Moody is mPI of a U01 program to develop a syphilis vaccine; this program is a collaboration with mPI Dr. Justin Radolf at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Moody is also the director of the DHVI Accessioning Unit, a biorepository that provides support for work occurring at DHVI and with its many collaborators around the world by providing processing, shipping, and inventory support for a wide array of projects.
Dr. Moody and his team are involved in many networks studying vaccine response including the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs) and the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN).
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Scholarly Works
Identifying Intervention Targets to Reduce Emotional Distress and Improve Physical Activity in Juvenile Lupus and Dermatomyositis Patients: Longitudinal Analysis of Lupus Erythematosus and Dermatomyositis Stress and Cardiovascular Health Study Patient-Reported Resiliency Data
Conference ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY · May 2026 Link to item CitePositive Affect and Emotion Regulation Protect Juvenile-Onset Lupus and Dermatomyositis Patients from Emotional Distress: Longitudinal Analysis of Lupus Erythematosus and Dermatomyositis Stress and Cardiovascular Health Cohort Parent Data
Conference ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY · May 2026 Link to item CiteStrain Agnostic Influenza Virus Propagation in a Serum-Free, Suspension-Adapted MDCK Cell Line.
Journal article Influenza Other Respir Viruses · March 2026 BACKGROUND: The continuing circulation and evolution of seasonal influenza viruses remains a public health and socioeconomic threat on a global scale. Viral surveillance and vaccination of the public have been relied upon to confer and boost immunity in th ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 20302/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · 2025 - 2030Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2025 - 2030View All Grants