Research News

Duke University recently launched Duke Science and Technology (DST), a fundraising and faculty recruitment and retention effort aimed at elevating and sustaining excellence in the sciences.

The Neuroscience Quarterly for Winter 2022 features alum Michael Wells as a rising member of the field in this "Future of Neuroscience" interview.

Your taste buds may or may not be able to tell real sugar from a sugar substitute like Splenda, but there are cells in your intestines that can and do distinguish between the two sweet solutions.

Congratulations to Neurobiology grad student Maddie Clark (Bilbo Lab) who just received a fellowship from the Kenan Institute of Ethics to spend this spring as a Teaching on Purpose Fellow! 

Note: Derek Southwell is a member of Neurobiology's training faculty.

A Bold New Effort Aims to Harness the Mechanisms of Resilience

Congratulations to Robin Blazing (Franks Lab) and Fabiola Duarte Ortiz (Mooney Lab) for their successful grant application to the Graduate School!  The two students will continue to host a career s

The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences is once again funding an excellent slate of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that have great promise to generate significant advancement in our knowle

This year's Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) will honor a group of lead

Postdoctoral research associate Amanda Lewis is the first author on the latest manuscript from the Grandl Lab. “Piezo1 ion channel