James Le Duc, PhD, is the former director of the Galveston National
Laboratory and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of
Microbiology & Immunology. Dr. Le Duc joined UTMB in late 2006 from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he was
the influenza coordinator and director of the Division of Viral and
Rickettsial Diseases. With more than four decades of experience working
in the fields of biodefense and public health, his work has taken him
around the world, from West Africa, where he began his professional
career as a field biologist working for the Smithsonian Institution, to
Brazil and Panama during a 23-year career as a U.S. Army officer in the
medical research and development command. Dr. Le Duc retired from UTMB
in 2021.