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Dr. Bruce Donald was elected for his seminal contributions to Information, Computing & Communication science, and their advancement towards the development of in silico drug design methodologies. 

Paul Modrich, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK, and Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, are the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

The Schumacher Lab describes the machinery and assembly mechanism of the archaeal Sulfolobus pNOB8 segregation system.

Benjamin Fenton awarded a 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dr. Vann Bennett and team have shown that two different mutations in a gene called ankyrin-B cause cells to suck up glucose faster than normal, fattening them up and eventually triggering the type of diabetes linked to obesity.

Research collaboration explores the efficacy of beating back multidrug-resistant bacteria by using chemical compounds known as LpxC inhibitors.

A collaboration including the Schumacher and Brennan Labs show that a protein called HipA acts as a kind of molecular Sandman, putting bacterial cells to sleep so they can live another day.

On 1 June 2015, the Department of Biochemistry welcomed its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Haung-he Yang. Dr. Yang is also a member of the Ion Channel Research Unit.

Nine members of the School of Medicine faculty were named to endowed professorships by Duke University on April 30, 2015.

The molecular machines that copy DNA in a living cell are amazingly fast and accurate at pairing up the correct bases—G with C and A with T—into each new double helix.