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Beatriz Leon-Ruiz
Award of Tenure in the Department of Microbiology. -
Todd Green
Award of Tenurue in the Department of Microbiology. -
Jeremy Foote
Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology. -
Hubert Tse
Promoted to Professor in the Department of Microbiology. -
Jamil Saad
Promoted to Professor in the Department of Microbiology. -
Rodney King
Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology. -
David Briles
Retiring from UAB, after 43 dedicated years. -
Nicholas Lennemann
Joined UAB Department of Microbiology faculty in 2020. -
Jiri Mestecky
The Kutteh family made a generous commitment to establish an endowed faculty scholar fund as an initial step toward establishing the Dr. Jiri Mestecky Endowed Chair in the Department of Microbiology. -
Michael Niederweis
Winner of the School of Medicine Featured Discovery for the paper “Pore-forming Esx proteins mediate toxin secretion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.” -
Terje Dokland
Established an Macromolecular Structure Institutional Research Core Program at UAB. -
Frances Lund
Founding Director for The Immunology Institute at UAB.Senior faculty winner of the 2020 Dean’s Excellence Award in Research. -
Heather Bruns
Appointed as the Department of Microbiology's first Vice-Chair for Education. -
Michael Gray
Named UAB School of Medicine Equity Advisor for the Department of Microbiology. -
Jessica Scoffield
Named 2022 class of James A. Pittman Jr., M.D., Scholar in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.Named UAB School of Medicine Wellness Champion for the Department of Microbiology.First recipient of the 2020 AADR Proctoor & Gamble Underrepresented Faculty & Research Fellowship.Louis Justement
Annouced as President-Elect for the Society for Leukocyte Biology.Served as 2020 FASEB President.Janet Yother
Received 2020 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.Amy Weinmann
Awarded the 2020 Becky Trigg Outstanding UAB Faculty Member.Carlos J Orihuela
Named Director of the University Wide Microbiome Center at UAB.Selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Society of Microbiology for the years 2020-2022.Elected as a 2021 fellow for the American Academy of Microbiology.