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Lefkowitz Wins Nobel Prize

Robert Lefkowitz wins the Nobel Prize for cell receptor research that changed drug delivery

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Robert Lefkowitz's mother-in-law Charlotte Tippett waves at the image of Lefkowitz entering the Nobel Prize ceremony Monday.  Tippett and others watched the ceremony from a live stream broadcast in Schiciano Auditorium.

The Big Day in Stockholm

Back in Durham, a wave for Duke's Robert Lefkowitz

Duke scientist Robert Lefkowitz received his Nobel Prize...

PUBLISHED December 10, 2012 IN Academics , Campus , Medicine
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Robert Lefkowitz discusses his research on cell receptors with President Richard H. Brodhead. Photo by Jared Lazarus/Duke University Photography

Lefkowitz on Failure and Success in Medical Research

Nobel Prize-winner traces the highs and lows of his career in a public conversation

A Duke research scientist who has earned the greatest rewards of success spent an hour Thursday...

PUBLISHED November 2, 2012 IN Research , Campus , Academics , Medicine
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In addition to a distinguished research career, Robert Lefkowitz also was known as a mentor to many leading scientists.  Photo by Duke University Photography

Robert Lefkowitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Medical researcher honored for pathbreaking studies of cell receptors

Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire...

PUBLISHED October 10, 2012 IN Academics , Medicine , Campus , Research
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Upon arriving in his office Wednesday, Robert Lefkowitz hugs his administrator of 35 years, Donna Addison. Photo by Jared Lazarus/Duke University Photography

The Day 'The Call' Came from Stockholm

Duke celebrates when the Nobel Prize comes to campus

On the morning his Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced, Robert Lefkowitz didn't get "The Call...

PUBLISHED October 10, 2012 IN Campus , Academics
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Robert Lefkowitz, left, with a student in his lab.  Lefkowitz has mentored around 220 grad students and postdocs.  Photo by Duke University Photography

Robert Lefkowitz, Mentor

Many of researcher's students have become leading medical researchers themselves

The word "sharing" came up a lot as Robert J. Lefkowitz and others talked about the work he did...

PUBLISHED October 10, 2012 IN Academics , Campus , Medicine
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