Duke Medicine Professor Named Harrington Scholar-Innovator

Wolfgang Liedtke, an associate professor at Duke Medicine, has been named one of 10 Harrington Scholar-Innovators, which includes a grant of up to $200,000 over two years. Liedtke won for his work in pain control, specifically helping to develop a new class of drugs that inhibit the pain response in skin with potential applications in painful skin conditions including sunburn and wound pain.