History
Bryan Cullen, PhD
Founding Director
Founding
2002
The Center for Virology at Duke University Medical Center was founded in January 2002 by Dr. Bryan Cullen to provide a focus for research and graduate training in the field of virology.
FORMER CENTER FACULTY
Established by Wolfgang “Bill” Joklik, the Viral Oncology Training Grant provided pre- and postdoctoral training in the field of molecular virology with an emphasis on the molecular biology of tumor viruses and oncogenes. Faculty members worked in the areas of molecular virology, viral and molecular oncology, and viral vector-based cancer vaccine therapeutics, constituted the program faculty.
1980 - 2025
FORMER TRAINING FACULTY
History of Virology at Duke University
Wolfgang Karl "Bill" Joklik
Molecular virologist
b. 1926 - d. 2019
Dr. Joklik’s accomplishments exemplify a career devoted to the virology community at Duke and beyond. He chaired the Duke Department of Microbiology and Immunology for 25 years, founded the American Society of Virology and served as longtime editor-in-chief at Virology. His research focused on reovirus and vaccinia poxvirus, including contributions to replication mechanisms, gene/protein sequences, and innate immune effectors.
at Duke 1937 - 1973
Together, Dr. Joseph Beard and his wife Dorothy Beard, a trained surgical nurse, made numerous discoveries in the fields of viral oncology and vaccinology. They developed the first effective equine encephalomyelitis vaccine and isolated and studied multiple cancer-associated animal viruses.
