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Jorn Coers

Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Awards & Honors


Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

National American Society of Microbiology · 2025 More about this award

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

In the News


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 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