He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. He has served as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco (1986-88); Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1994-1999); and School of Medicine Eminent Scholar (1999). He has also served as president of the Bloomington and University faculty councils. His lab studies molecular mechanisms controlling phospholipid organization in biological membranes in health and disease, with an emphasis on the effects of diabetes on membrane lipid organization and the characterization and identification of phospholipid transporters, or "flippases." For more information on Daleke, see http://medsci.indiana.edu/MedSci/research/daleke/dalekelab.htm.