Duncan Smith has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar

The Searle Scholars Program supports research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level. Each year 15 new individuals are named Searle Scholars and awarded flexible grants of $300,000 over three years. 

This award will support ongoing research in the Smith lab into how the asymmetric mechanism of DNA replication impacts epigenetic inheritance in eukaryotes.