James Andrew Alspaugh II

Dr. Andrew Alspaugh is a physician-scientist with a research focus on the molecular pathogenesis of human fungal infections. He has a strong commitment to clinical and research training in microbiology/infectious diseases, as well as to the professional development of graduate students, post-doctoral trainees, and junior faculty. A practicing Adult Infectious Diseases physician, he is also actively involved in the training of Infectious Diseases clinical fellows, especially aspiring physician-scientists. Within the Duke School of Medicine, he was the director of the first-year Medical Microbiology course for eight years. He is also a co-director of the Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program, a long-standing program to prepare post-doctoral scholars to become leaders in fungal research. For five years, he served as the course director for the Marine Biological Laboratories “Molecular Mycology” course, an international research training course in medical mycology.

His laboratory research program focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of human fungal infections. These infections occur in our most vulnerable patient populations, especially those with severe defects in immunity. In basic and translational studies, he has defined specific ways in which fungal sense and respond to various stress signals to survive within the infected host.

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https://medicine.duke.edu/profile/james-andrew-alspaugh