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Margarethe Joanna Kuehn

Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Duke Box 3711, Durham, NC 27710
Research Drive, 220A Nanaline H Duke, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Genetic and Genomics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

IRGM proteins as regulators of inflammation

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2020 - 2025

Convergence RAISE: Harnessing Extracellular Vesicle Mediated Interkingdom Communication

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

GDEP STEM Outreach Supplement Award: Pay It Forward

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2021 - 2022

Enteroendocrine cells sense gut bacteria and activate a gut-brain pathway

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2021

Characterizing the association of RNA with bacterial membrane vesicles and their delivery to host cells

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2019 - 2021

Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of MraY Catalysis and Inhibition

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2020

Genetics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020

Organization and Function of Cellular Structure

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020

Triggers and Consequences of Bacterial Envelope Stress

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2017

Regulation of Host Defense by IRG Proteins

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2016

Enterotoxin targeting and delivery mechanisms

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2012

Duke PREP: Minority Recruitment into Biomedical Sciences

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2008

Heat-Labile Enterotoxin Secretion

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2008

Detection of in vivo ETEC vesicle production

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2006

Production and function of E Coli Vesicles

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2004

External Relationships


  • Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Kuwait University
  • National Research Foundation, Singapore

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