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Huanghe Yang, PhD, and Mohamad Mikati, MD, received an award from the Duke Institute for Brain Science. They will research mutations in BK-type ion channels in those afflicted with epilepsy and dyskinesia, determining how the mutation causes neurological symptoms and how to design new precision therapeutics. Read more

PhD student, Ying Yin, receives award for her scientific discoveries and publications as well as the positive impact.

Increasing underrepresented minorities (URM) in PhD programs is unlikely to increase URM biomedical faculty. An emerging new way to bridge the gap is through interventions at scientific societies. Read how The American Society of Cell Biology’s Minorities Affairs Committee, including Duke Biochemistry’s own Mike Boyce, has taken on this challenge and found success.

Two Yang Lab graduate students simultaneously publish in "Nature Communications".

After a competitive process, Megan Kelly was awarded a prestigious NIAID F30 grant

For being an outstanding scientist at the start of his independent research career and for showing exceptional promise for leadership in science, Dr. Michael Boyce received one of the highest honors given by the US Government. Read More

In her Lasker Foundation winning essay, Beggs proposes a PokemonGo-like smartphone app that swaps Pikachu for Protozoa. Read more

Dr. Pei Zhou is the co-author of a study that discovered a small molecule that can stop the shape-shifting power of cancer cells. Read more

Megan Kelly, MD/PhD candidate, was recognized for her contributions to diversity and inclusion within the School of Medicine community.

Dr. Dave Richardson has a top 20 most read paper in Protein Science (2017-18).