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Jorn Coers

Alter Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Academic Honors


Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

National American Society of Microbiology · 2025 More about this honor

MERIT award (R37)

Other NIH/ NIAID · 2024

Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

National Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2016

ICAAC Young Investigator Awards

National American Society for Microbiology · 2011

SERCEB Career Development Award

National NIAID · 2011

Jane E. Raulston Award

International Chlamydia Basic Research Society · 2009

Charles A. King trust postdoctoral fellowsh

National Health Resources in Action · 2007

German Research Foundation (DFG) postdoctoral fellowship

International German Research Foundation · 2005

News Items


Published March 25, 2026
Duke Honors 38 Distinguished Professors in 2026
Published February 3, 2025
Celebrating Duke’s New Full Professors
Published November 9, 2022
Mysterious Outbreak of Bone-Eating TB Resembled an Ancestral Form
Published September 8, 2022
Chlamydia’s Stealthy Cloaking Device Identified
Published June 30, 2016
BWF Gives 5-Year Award to Jörn Coers
Published September 28, 2015
Molecular ‘Kiss Of Death’ Flags Pathogens For Destruction