Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a physician-scientist, is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at the Duke University Medical Center. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards including the National Medal of Science, the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the Canada Gairdner International award. In 2012 he and Brian Kobilka, a postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory in the 1980s, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies of G-protein coupled receptors.