10/15/2026
Please take a moment to congratulate our own Dr. Dunham for being honored with an Auburn University Creative Research and Scholarship Faculty Award. He's recognized as a global leader in aquaculture genetics and biotechnology, with a career spanning multiple decades.
Dunham has produced nearly 600 scholarly works, including nearly 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, 91 book chapters, and three books. His research has been cited more than 14,000 times, resulting in an H-index of 64.
Among his numerous achievements, Dunham’s work has resulted in the first release of genetically improved fish in the United States, the first production of a transgenic fish in the United States, the first production of xenogeneic catfish, and advances in targeted gene editing and gene insertion in fish. His research has benefited the agricultural economy in Alabama and beyond by enabling commercial-scale production of channel catfish and blue catfish hybrids, which now account for nearly 70% of U.S. catfish production. Dunham is a previous winner of the Creative Research and Scholarship Award in 2008.
