Scholars@Duke
Clare Smith

Clare Smith

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
412 Nanaline Duke, Box 3054, Durham, NC 27710
412 Nanaline Duke, 307 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Academic 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 honor

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

News Items

Published August 20, 2025
Inside TB's Hidden Cities
Published June 20, 2024
Clare Smith Named 2024 Pew Scholar
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