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Clare Smith

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
264 Jones, Box 3054, Durham, NC 27710
270 Jones BOX3054, 207 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Awards & Honors


Mary Lyon award for outstanding early/mid-career female investigator

International International Mammalian Genome Society · 2024

Pew Scholars in Biomedicine

Other Pew Charitable Trusts · 2024 More about this award

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2)

National NIH Common Fund · 2021 Awarded for high-risk, high-reward research

Whitehead Scholar

University Duke University; Whitehead Family Fund · 2020

In the News


Published April 11, 2023
Smith Receives Mary Lyon Award from IMGS
Published November 9, 2022
Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating tuberculosis resembled an ancestral form