Nicholas Scott Heaton

Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Appointments and Affiliations

School of Medicine Researchers Honored for Study of the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (May 25, 2021 | School of Medicine)
Estrogen Receptors in Mom’s Placenta Critical During Viral Infection (Jan 21, 2021)
Sniffing Out COVID-Related Loss of Smell (Jan 11, 2021 | Duke Health News)
Scent-Sensing Cells Have a Better Way to Fight Flu (Sep 1, 2020)
Lung Cell Patches Its Own DNA on the Fly to Survive Influenza (Jul 29, 2019)
Microbiology Society Recognizes Two Duke Researchers (Sep 6, 2018)
New Vaccine Production Could Improve Flu Shot Accuracy (Jul 24, 2017)

Trimarco, JD; Heaton, NS, From high-throughput to therapeutic: host-directed interventions against influenza viruses., Curr Opin Virol, vol 53 (2022) [10.1016/j.coviro.2021.12.014] [abs].
Harding, AT; Heaton, NS, The Impact of Estrogens and Their Receptors on Immunity and Inflammation during Infection., Cancers, vol 14 no. 4 (2022) [10.3390/cancers14040909] [abs].
Froggatt, HM; Heaton, NS, Nonrespiratory sites of influenza-associated disease: mechanisms and experimental systems for continued study., Febs J (2022) [10.1111/febs.16363] [abs].
Froggatt, HM; Burke, KN; Chaparian, RR; Miranda, HA; Zhu, X; Chambers, BS; Heaton, NS, Influenza A virus segments five and six can harbor artificial introns allowing expanded coding capacity., Plos Pathog, vol 17 no. 9 (2021) [10.1371/journal.ppat.1009951] [abs].
Drayman, N; DeMarco, JK; Jones, KA; Azizi, S-A; Froggatt, HM; Tan, K; Maltseva, NI; Chen, S; Nicolaescu, V; Dvorkin, S; Furlong, K; Kathayat, RS; Firpo, MR; Mastrodomenico, V; Bruce, EA; Schmidt, MM; Jedrzejczak, R; Muñoz-Alía, MÁ; Schuster, B; Nair, V; Han, K-Y; O'Brien, A; Tomatsidou, A; Meyer, B; Vignuzzi, M; Missiakas, D; Botten, JW; Brooke, CB; Lee, H; Baker, SC; Mounce, BC; Heaton, NS; Severson, WE; Palmer, KE; Dickinson, BC; Joachimiak, A; Randall, G; Tay, S, Masitinib is a broad coronavirus 3CL inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2., Science, vol 373 no. 6557 (2021), pp. 931-936 [10.1126/science.abg5827] [abs].