Biochemistry

Drs. Jane and Dave Richardson Win Protein Society Award

Congratulations to Jane and Dave Richardson, who have been 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 will be conferred to the Richardsons during the Plenary Awards session at the Annual Symposium of the Protein Society on July 11, 2018. Visit the Protein Society to read more about the Richardsons and the Carl Brändén Award.

Paul Modrich Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry

October 7, 2015 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that 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.

Robert Lefkowitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Professor of Biochemistry who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s. Photo by Duke University Photography

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Dr. Huanghe Yang Wins NIH Award

Congratulations to Dr. Huanghe Yang, who has been named a recipient of a 2017 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to study membrane ion and lipid transport.