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Third-year Duke medical student Emily Alway grew up near Detroit, but every July, her family would travel to North Carolina for Lumbee homecoming, which includes a parade and a pow

Calakos is a physician-scientist who has become a leader in her field with discoveries in basal ganglia physiology and its role in disease.

Duke University researchers in a team led by neurobiologist Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.

Kaf Dzirasa and Amanda Randles are among just eight scholars nationwide who have been awarded Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health.  Each has been awarded $3

Ask an oncologist what cancer is, and they could talk to you for hours, telling you about cell cycles, oncogenes, and all sorts of things,” says Stephen Lisberger, PhD, chair and George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Neurobiology. “Ask a neurologist what Alzheimer’s is, and it's going to be a short conversation.”

The latest cohort of graduate students just completed Neurobiology Boot Camp and have already begun their classes and first lab rotations.

Congratulations to Karim Abdelaal​ of the Dzirasa Lab on being awarded a 

Stephen Lisberger, PhD, the George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research and chair of Neurobiology in the School of Medicine, is one of three Duke faculty newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences. 

Josh Huang, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and co-leader of an effort to map the brain in new detail, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, along with three other Duke faculty members.

It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of Marc Caron, PhD, James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Medicine.