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December 18, 2018
Amy Abernethy , MD, PhD, a Duke University School of Medicine alumna and adjunct professor, has been appointed the FDA’s new principal deputy...
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December 17, 2018
Researchers Represent Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Durham VA Health Care System Three physicians and two post-doctoral nurses will comprise the...
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December 12, 2018
Duke University Provost Sally Kornbluth and Bruce Sullenger , PhD, have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) class of 2018...
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December 11, 2018
HIV evades the body’s immune defenses through a multitude of mutations, and antibodies produced by the host’s immune system to fight HIV also follow...
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December 5, 2018
For a child, recovering from a broken bone is typically a short-lived, albeit painful, convalescence. But for older adults, it can be a protracted...
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December 5, 2018
Cagla Eroglu, PhD, Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD, and Al La Spada MD, PhD A trio of Duke researchers have received a grant of more than $1 million to study...
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December 5, 2018
When a patient’s blood oxygen levels drop below 90 percent in the emergency room in the United States, many doctors panic. The body needs oxygen in...
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December 4, 2018
Umbilical cord blood stem cells that are cultured and expanded outside the body before being used for bone marrow transplant in adult blood cancer...
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November 29, 2018
Anna Mae Diehl, MD , the Florence McAllister Professor of Medicine and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in Duke University School of...
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November 28, 2018
Illustration by Laura Hughes Those who remember the crash test dummy commercials for automobiles in the 1980s know that testing new technologies...
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November 27, 2018
When scientific publication is viewed as a web of connections, some publications are bigger than others. (Image Luc Viatour) Forty-four members of...
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November 27, 2018
Micah A. Luftig, PhD, William J. Steinbach, MD, Georgia D. Tomaras, PhD, Gregory A. Wray, PhD Four faculty members from the Duke University School of...
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November 16, 2018
A. Eugene Washington, MD , Chancellor for Health Affairs, and President and Chief Executive Officer for Duke University Health System, received the...
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November 14, 2018
Grace Anderson, Erez Cohen, Tim Darlington, Fan Li Four senior PhD students in the School of Medicine were awarded the inaugural Chancellor’s Award...
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November 13, 2018
Duke Faculty Patrick J. Casey, PhD, a faculty member at both the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham and Duke-NUS Medical School in...