Senior Investigator
Lasker Clinical Research Scholar
Chief, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Antimicrobial Resistance Section
Specialty(s): Pathology, Clinical, Pathology, Medical Microbiology
Education:
M.D., Harvard Medical School
Ph.D., Harvard University
Biography
Dr. Dekker received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and Ph.D. from Harvard University through the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. He completed pathology residency and fellowship training in medical microbiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is board-certified in clinical pathology and medical microbiology through the American Board of Pathology. In 2013, he joined the NIH Clinical Center as a Senior Staff member of the Microbiology Service in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. In this role, he co-directed the Bacteriology, Specimen Processing, Parasitology, and Molecular Epidemiology sections of the laboratory and established the Genomics Section before serving as acting chief of the Microbiology Service in 2018. In 2018, Dr. Dekker was named a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and recruited as a tenure-track investigator within the NIAID intramural research program, where he established the Bacterial Pathogenesis and Antimicrobial Resistance Section within the Laboratory for Clinical Immunology and Microbiology. He received tenure in 2024.
Dr. Dekker has served on FDA anti-infective drug advisory committees and is an editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. He received the Beckman-Coulter Young Investigator award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2016, an NIH Clinical Center CEO Award in 2017, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award in 2020. He is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.