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Darell Doty Bigner

E. L. and Lucille F. Jones Cancer Distinguished Research Professor, in the School of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Duke Box 3156, Durham, NC 27710
177 Med Sci Res Bldg, Durham, NC 27710

Awards & Honors


Recipient, Feldman Founder's Award

National National Brain Tumor Society · 2014

Team Leader AACR Team Science Award with Bert Vogelstein (Hopkins) and Ira Pastan (NCI)

National AACR · 2014

Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award

National Society for Neuro-Oncology · 2014

International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemstsma Foundation(Shared with David Louis, M.D., and awarded in Cologne, Germany)

International Gertrud Reemstsma Foundation · 2008

Honorary Member

National American Association of Neurological Surgeons · 2007

Doctor of Medicine, honoris causa

International University of Lund, Sweden · 2007

Brain Tumor Researcher of the Year

National Tug McGraw Foundation · 2006

Founding Editor

National Neuro-Oncology · 1997

Basic Science Lecture Award

National American Society of Cytopathology · 1991

President

National American Association of Neuropathologists · 1988

Honorary Member, Joint Section on Tumors, American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons

National American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeson · 1986

Farber Foundation Brain Tumor Research Award

National Farber Foundation · 1985

In the News


Published January 10, 2025
How Duke Research Seeks to Make Its Impact
Published January 7, 2025
Dr. Darrell Bigner Goes from Farm to Lab and Back Again
Published August 8, 2024
New Drug for Gliomas Approved by FDA
Published October 30, 2015
Duke brain tumor therapies receive outstanding investigator award
Published March 31, 2015
Commentary: What ‘60 Minutes’ got right and wrong on Duke's polio virus trial against glioblastoma
Published July 21, 2014
Bigner to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Society of Neuro-Oncology
Published March 4, 2014
Brain Tumor Collaboration Led by Duke Receives Team Award