Philip Benfey, PhD
Paul Kramer Professor and Chair, Biology Department
"A lot of high-throughput technology can now be applied to any organism. To my mind, these approaches are the kinds of things that will differentiate the places that are doing exciting research from those that aren't."Philip Benfey graduated from the University of Paris and received his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University under the guidance of Dr. Philip Leder. He did post-doctoral research at Rockefeller University in the field of Plant Molecular Biology working with Dr. Nam-Hai Chua and was appointed an assistant professor there in 1990. In 1991 he moved to New York University where he became an associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 2001. He was the founding director of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics at NYU. In 2002 he was named professor and chair of the Biology department at Duke University and in 2003 was named a distinguished professor. He is the recipient of a Helen Hay Whitney post-doctoral fellowship, an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship and was named a Fellow of the American Association of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Developmental Cell, Developmental Biology, BMC Plant Biology and Differentiation. His research focuses on plant developmental genetics and genomics.
Contact Information
Philip Benfey
Phone: 919-660-7338
4101 French Family Science Center
philip.benfey@duke.edu