Jorge E. Galán

Jorge Galán is the Lucille B. Markey Professor of Microbiology and Professor of Cell Biology at the Yale University School of Medicine.

The Galan Lab, in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, studies the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. Together, these bacterial pathogens are responsible for the majority of food-borne illnesses in the world. Although most often these bacteria cause self-limiting gastroenteritis, they can also cause life-threatening disease such as typhoid fever. To study these bacterial pathogens, Galan's lab takes a multidisciplinary approach that include bacterial genetics, animal models, cell biology, immunology, and structural biology approaches. Their aim is to define the functional and, when possible, the atomic interface between these pathogens and their hosts, and in the process, to provide the bases for the development of novel prevention and therapeutic strategies to combat infectious diseases that are a global public health concern. 

Galán is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences, the Searle Scholar Award, the National Institutes of Health MERIT award in 2000 and 2015, the Hans Sigrist Prize, the Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, and the Robert Koch Prize.

He earned his DVM from the National University of La Plata (Argentina) and his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Cornell University. He completed postdoctoral studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and was in the Faculty at SUNY Stony Brook before coming to Yale in 1998.