Duke University School of Medicine celebrated excellence in graduate student education and discovery science at its 2026 Office of Biomedical Graduate Education (OBGE) Graduate Student Awards ceremony, an event that was expanded this year to recognize trainees at multiple stages of their research careers. To read more, please click here.
In 2024, these awards underwent a name change from Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence (CARE) to Dean's Award for Research Excellence (DARE).
Odmaa Bayaraa; Genetic and Genomics; Mentor: Simon Gregory
Ben Neubert; Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Mentor: Lawrence David
Trisha Dalapati; Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Mentor: Dennis Ko
Christian McRoberts ; Pharmacology; Mentor: Charlie Gersbach
Robin Blazing; Neurobiology; Mentor: Kevin Franks
Josh Ginzel; Cell Biology/Developmental and Stem Cell Biology; Mentor: Joshua Snyder
Duc Huynh; Biochemistry; Mentor: Michael Boyce
Shane Killarney; Medical Scientist Training Program/Molecular Cancer Biology; Mentor: Kris Wood
Brooke D'Arcy; Cell and Molecular Biology/Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: Debby Silver
Rebecca Gibson; MSTP/Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Mentor: Priya Kishnani
Pia Rodriguez Salazar; Cell and Molecular Biology/Cell Biology: Mentor: Cagla Eroglu
Mollie Sweeney; Cell and Molecular Biology/Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: David Tobin
Sebastian Wellford; Immunology; Mentor: Ashley Moseman
Jeffrey Bourgeois; University Program in Genetics and Genomics/Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: Dennis Ko, MD/PhD
Megan Kelly; Biochemistry; Mentor: Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD
Haoran Pang; Biochemistry; Mentor:Ken Yokoyama, Ph.D
Daniel Snellings; Molecular Genetics & Microbiology/Cell and Molecular Biology; Mentor: Doug Marchuk, PhD
Nicholas Wright; Biochemistry; Mentor: Seok-Yong Lee, PhD
Elizabeth Fleming; Neurobiology; Mentor: Court Hull, PhD
Kyle Gibbs; Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: Dennis Ko, MD/PhD
Siqi Li; Pharmacology; Mentor: Christopher Counter, PhD
Morgan Parker; Immunology; Mentor: Maria Ciofani, PhD
Atul Kaushik Rangadurai; Biochemistry; Mentor: Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD
Amy Webster; University Program in Genetics & Genomics; Mentor Ryan Baugh, PhD
Ted Espenschied; Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: John Rawls, PhD
Nandan Gokhale; Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Mentor: Stacy Horner, PhD
Kevin Lin; MSTP/Pharmacology; Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD
Ying Yin; Biochemistry; Mentor: Seok-Yong Lee, PhD
Grace Anderson; Molecular Cancer Biology; Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD
Erez Cohen; Cell Biology; Mentor: Don Fox, PhD
Tim Darlington; MSTP/Neurobiology; Mentor: Steve Lisberger, PhD
Fan (Frank) Li; Biostatistics; Mentor: Fan Li, PhD