Robert Lefkowitz

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1943

American physician and biochemist

Studied at Duke University
Worked at Duke University

Quotations with a citation

To stand before this assembly as a Nobel Laureate in the midst of these gala and festive surroundings, is simultaneously daunting, exhilarating, empowering, and most of all humbling. It is a remarkable moment, one to be savored.

I have trained more than 200 students and fellows in my lab over the past 40 years, and a number of mine and Brian’s trainees have traveled to Stockholm to share this experience with us. They are in a very real sense a second family.