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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

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

Congratulations to Jessica Wojtaszek, Javaria Najeeb, Ben Fenton and their colleagues for the discovery of a small molecule adjuvant that stems cancer drug resistance.

Published in "Nature Communications," the Lee Lab defines four crystal structures of the Lipid II flippase, MurJ. They identified the key ion for function and provided a framework for the development of inhibitors. Read more