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Blanca Rodriguez wins fellowship award.

It can be daunting to teach a class while doing STEM research for your PhD, but Nichole Orench-Rivera did just that. After her semester instructing undergraduates, she learned a few things about balancing teaching and research. Read her tips

Yang Lab's, Son Le, receives prestigious 2-year American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.

Nobel prize winner George P. Smith completed his early award-winning research at Duke. While working in the lab of now Professor Emeritus, Robert Webster, he developed a technology known as ‘phage display’ that allows scientists to better study interactions between proteins, peptides, and DNA. Read more

Duke has awarded Dr. Seok-Yong Lee the 2018 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor, recognizing him for his support and encouragement of trainees. He received his award at the Postdoctoberfest on  October 5th and now sits among 13 other mentors named by the University. Read more

Duke Biochemistry recognizes the passing of Professor Emeritus, Dr. Deborah Steege.

Dr. Maria Schumacher and team find an additional protein that is essential for DNA replication.

As part of the Emerging Leaders Institute, Grace Beggs and team developed a list of time management tools tailored to graduate students and postdocs. Because their list was so extensive, they developed a diagnostic tool so people could identify their most challenging areas. Read more

Dr. Kenichi Yokoyama selected as the 2019 recipient of the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry given by the American Chemical Sociaty

Drs. Jane and Dave Richardson were selected as the co-winners of the 2018 Carl Brändén Award by the Protein Society. This prestigious award, sponsored by the Rigaku Corporation, is given to outstanding protein scientists, who have made exceptional contributions in the areas of education and service to the science. The award was conferred during the Plenary Awards session at the Annual Symposium of the Protein Society on July 11, 2018. Read more