Lefkowitz named The News & Observer's 2012 Tar Heel of the Year
By etm18@dhe.duke.edu
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has been named a 2012 Tar Heel of the Year by The News & Observer. Dr. Lefkowitz shares the honor with Myron Cohen, MD, associate vice chancellor for global health, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill.
An article in The News & Observer noted Lefkowitz's accomplishments as a researcher and mentor:
"It was his world-class mentoring, along with Lefkowitz's unwavering focus and intuitive picks of which high-risk questions to pursue, that brought Duke University its long-awaited first Nobel Prize, began an entire field of science, and enabled a new approach to designing innumerable better drugs."
Read the full article here. Congratulations, Bob!
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has been named a 2012 Tar Heel of the Year by The News & Observer. Dr. Lefkowitz shares the honor with Myron Cohen, MD, associate vice chancellor for global health, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill.
An article in The News & Observer noted Lefkowitz's accomplishments as a researcher and mentor:
"It was his world-class mentoring, along with Lefkowitz's unwavering focus and intuitive picks of which high-risk questions to pursue, that brought Duke University its long-awaited first Nobel Prize, began an entire field of science, and enabled a new approach to designing innumerable better drugs."
Read the full article here. Congratulations, Bob!