As part of his visit to Duke on Wednesday, Vice President Biden met with Dr. Paul Modrich, professor in the Department of Biochemistry, who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with UNC’s Dr. Aziz Sancar. Both scientists have been pioneers in the study of DNA repair, which has been crucial to understanding how cell repair mechanisms can go awry and lead to cancer, and Biden cited the “groundbreaking work” as the kind of science that should be further fostered. Read more