Meet Physicians & Scientists

When K.V. Rajagopalan, PhD, arrived in the United States from India to begin his postdoctoral work in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke, he...

Brant Inman, MD, MS, is skilled at the major surgeries that no one wants to be unlucky enough to have. “I’m the guy who when you’ve got a tumor this...

Dorothy Sipkins, MD, PhD, became fascinated by leukemia during her medical training. She remembers studying a biopsy from an elderly patient who had...

Scott Soderling, PhD, is having trouble sleeping. It’s not that he lies awake plagued by worries or woes. On the contrary, the problem is that  he’s...

Samuel L. Katz, MD, described himself as merely a “young, enthusiastic, and naïve
pediatrician” who “came along at the right time, in the right...

The sun was barely up when Paul L. Modrich, PhD, heard his phone signal a text message. It was from a former post-doc, who had just heard the big news...

Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering and global health, has invented several innovative technologies that address the needs of...