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Varsha Singh, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at the Indian Institute of Science and alumnus of the Alejandro Aballay was awarded a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Senior Fellowship.

MGM graduate students Jeff Bourgeois, Jr. (Ko Lab) and Dan Snellings (Marchuk Lab) have been selected as recipients of the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (CARE).

Jeff Letourneau (David Lab) and his work were the subject of the article “How much fiber should you eat? A Duke graduate student forages for the answer” not long ago, and will be highlighted in the “ICYMI” communication sent out by the School of Medicine.

Joseph Heitman, James B. Duke Professor and Chair of MGM and Tri-I MMPTP  Director, who was one of two Duke Faculty members elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Please join in congratulating Nick Heaton and Dong Yan, whose promotions to Associate Professor with tenure were recently approved by the Duke Board of Trustees.

Dr. Yong-Sun Bahn, who is alumni of the Joe Heitman lab at Duke, has been recently appointed as Underwood Distinguished Professor by Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

The new $30 million Collaborative Crop Resilience Program brings together investigators from NC State University and th

Jinks-Robertson was one of two Duke Faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which is widely considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. To read more about this honor click here.