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Seok-Yong Lee

George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology
Biochemistry
Duke Box 3711, Sands 269, Durham, NC 27710
269 Sands, 303 Research Dr, Durham, NC 27710

Academic Honors


NIGMS award, 56th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

International NIGMS · 2012

Basil O'connor Starter Scholar Research Award

National March of Dimes Foundation · 2011

Sloan Research Fellowship-Neuroscience

National Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · 2011

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

National NIH · 2011

Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences

National Klingenstein Foundation · 2010

Mallinckrodt Scholar Award

National Mallinckrodt Foundation · 2010

McKnight Scholar Award

National McKnight Foundation · 2010

News Items


Published May 4, 2023
Duke Awards 44 Distinguished Professorships
Published January 24, 2023
Cold Comfort
Published December 19, 2019
Cryo-Electron Microscope Captures Details of the ‘Wasabi Sensor’
Published February 7, 2019
Defining the Shape of Cool
Published April 17, 2017
Time-Lapse Shows How Anticancer and Antiviral Drugs Get Into Cells
Published January 18, 2016
Scientists Discover Blueprint of Body's Temperature Sensor