Dominik M. Duelli graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 with a degree in Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry. He earned the Ph.D. degree in Biology from Marquette University in 1998. Following postdoctoral work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory he was appointed in 2007 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology of the Chicago Medical School. He joined the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology in 2011.