HHMI’s Robert Lefkowitz shares prize with Brian Kobilka for research on G-protein coupled receptors. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Howard Hughes ...

Two Americans shared this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the communication system that the human body uses to sense the outside world and send messages to cells — for example, ...

In the inaugural Duke National Health Research Conference (DNHRC), student researchers from across the country and Duke faculty from various health-science disciplines gathered for a day of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to a crowd at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. during a campaign stop Tracy Kimball tkimball@heraldonline.com When Dr. Robert Lefkowitz received the Nobel Prize in ...

Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a professor at Duke University, and Dr. Brian Kobilka, one of his former students, have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their study of proteins that let cells in the ...

Minnesota native and University of Minnesota Duluth alumnus Brain Kobilka is one of two scientists to win this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry. Kobilka, who is now a professor at the Stanford ...

While he may not be as trustworthy as actor Tom Hanks, Robert Lefkowitz, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and Duke University professor, does rank No. 11 in <em>Reader ...