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Robert J. Lefkowitz

Robert J. Lefkowitz

Duke Health Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Cardiology
lefko001@receptor-biol.duke.edu
Duke Box 3821, Durham, NC 27710
467 Clin & Res Labs, Durham, NC 27710

Academic Honors

Fellow (NAI)

Other National Academy of Inventors · 2015 More about this honor

Highly Cited Researcher

National Thomson Reuters · 2014

AAAS Fellow

National American Association for the Advancement of Science · 2013

Nobel Prize-Chemistry

National Nobel Foundation · 2012

Life Science and Medicine

National Shaw Prize Foundation, The · 2007

National Medal of Science

National National Science and Technology Medals Foundation · 2007

Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship

National American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2004

Established Professional/Walter B. Cannon Award Lecture

National American Physiological Society · 2001

Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal

National National Academy of Science · 2001

Highly Cited Researcher

National Thomson Reuters · 2001

Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Awards/Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lecture

National American Physiological Society · 1996

Member (NAM)

National National Academy of Medicine · 1994

Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences

National Association of American Medical Colleges · 1990

Fellows

National American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1988 Area: Biological Sciences; Specialty: Medical Sciences More about this honor

Members/ Foreign Associates

National National Academy of Science · 1988 Primary Section: 42, Medical Physiology and Metabolism
Secondary Section: 23, Physiology and Pharmacology More about this honor

Gairdner Award

National Gairdner Foundation, The · 1988

Investigator/Alumni Investigator

National Howard Hughes Medical Institute · 1976 Scientific Discipline: Biochemistry, Pharmacology More about this honor

News Items

Published July 30, 2025
Seven Life-Changing Health Breakthroughs from Duke
Published November 16, 2023
Which Duke Scholars Made the Most Cited List?
Published October 13, 2023
Nobel Laureates Celebrate Duke’s Robert Lefkowitz
Published September 15, 2023
Robert Lefkowitz’s 50 Years of Discovery at Duke
Published June 28, 2023
New Rankings Place Duke Scholars on Top of the World
Published September 23, 2022
Chancellor’s Distinguished Professorship Established; Lefkowitz Named Inaugural Recipient
Published November 8, 2021
10 Duke-Authored Memoirs Have Stories to Tell
Published September 17, 2021
Two Duke Brain Scientists Named Howard Hughes Investigators
Published February 23, 2021
February Books: Robert Lefkowitz "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm"
Published January 13, 2021
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm
Published November 19, 2019
Global List of Highly Cited Puts Duke in Top Ten
Published November 7, 2019
School of Medicine
How Immigration Translates Into 'Talent From All Corners' for American Research
Published January 10, 2019
Seeing Shapeshifting Receptors at Work Could Yield New Drugs
Published November 27, 2018
Duke Faculty Plentiful On ‘Highly Cited’ List
Published November 9, 2017
An Interview with Bob Lefkowitz, Five Years After His Nobel
Published July 3, 2017
Duke Health Blog
Scientist Gets an Assist with Hearing Loss
Published August 5, 2016
Duke Team Identifies New ‘Mega-Complex’ Involved in Cell Signaling
Published April 12, 2016
Duke-UNC Collaboration May Lead to Drug Discovery Boom
Published March 23, 2016
Collaborative Grants Encourage UNC and Duke Researchers to Leave Rivalry on the Court
Published December 11, 2015
Lefkowitz, Haynes Elected Fellows of Inventors Academy
Published October 22, 2015
Apple Research App; New Arts Center: The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}
Published January 13, 2015
WRAL
Nobel 'aura' follows Duke professor after win
Published December 10, 2014
Wisdom Wednesdays: Lefkowitz on the Nobel Prize Experience
Published November 5, 2014
Robert Lefkowitz on Overcoming Failure
Published October 22, 2014
Lefkowitz On Finding His Career
Published October 8, 2014
Robert Lefkowitz: Measuring Research Success