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December 29, 2025

New Members!

First years Camille and Ali join the lab!

Sarah Prelim
April 9, 2025

Congrats Sarah!

Congratulations to Sarah for passing her prelim exam!

Addison Defense
March 25, 2025

Congrats Dr. Duda!

Congratulations Dr. Addison Duda (Franz Lab PhD #24) for successfully defending his dissertation! Addison’s work focused on the design of β-lactam prodrugs to selectively suppress β-lactam resistant pathogenic bacteria in microbial mixtures. Addison will continue research as a post-doc at…

Kathy Franz
March 25, 2025

Kathy Receives J.B. Duke Distinguished Professor Recognition

Congratulations Kathy on receiving the J.B. Duke Distinguished Professor recognition! This award honors faculty who are well-established members of the Duke academic community and have also achieved distinction as creative scholars in their field or in their ability to transcend…

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April 30, 2012

April 2012 Prelims

Congratulations to Mark and David for passing their prelim exams! Next stop, PhD . . .

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April 30, 2012

April 2012 Poster Session

Samhita and Justin present their independent study projects at the Chemistry Department Poster Session. Nice work!

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March 31, 2012

March 2012

Congratulations to Drew for winning a Best Poster Prize at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Drew’s poster, entitled “Visualizing Beta-Sectretase Activity in Cells with a Membrane Anchored FRET Probe” was part of a special symposium on “Chemical Interactions…

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January 31, 2012

January 2012

Qiang Su joins the lab as a first-year graduate student! Check out Jeff‘s cover art on the Feb 2012 issue of J. Inorg. Biochem. Group Alums Jeff and Kat can’t escape the Franz Lab, even when touring in Italy! (October,…