Med School Blog
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November 13, 2019
Monocytes trigger a better immune response in mice than current dendritic cell vaccines Using a precursor to dendritic cells appears to be an...
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November 8, 2019
Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD The Duke Medical Alumni Association honored Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD, with the William G. Anlyan, MD, Lifetime Achievement Award...
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November 6, 2019
Who has the right to shape what America is? This was the question posed by Ravi Bellamkonda , PhD, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke...
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November 4, 2019
Biochemist Irwin Fridovich, the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Medicine and a familiar figure on the Duke campus for more than 60 years, died...
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November 4, 2019
Donald P. McDonnell , PhD, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Christopher B. Newgard , PhD, professor of Medicine and...
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October 28, 2019
Four senior PhD students in the School of Medicine were awarded the second annual Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (CARE) for outstanding...
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October 28, 2019
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) hosted “Innovation Jam 2019,” as part of the School of Medicine’s...
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October 24, 2019
Hundreds of faculty, trainees, students, and staff attended the School of Medicine’s inaugural Research Week, held October 14-17, 2019. The week-long...
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October 23, 2019
The residency program in the Department of Radiology at Duke University School of Medicine has been named the Best Radiologist Training Program in...
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October 22, 2019
Hearing loss may lack the dread of a deadly infectious disease like dengue or HIV, but it is a large and growing global health disability, affecting...
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October 21, 2019
From the day she took office as dean of Duke University School of Medicine in 2017, Mary E. Klotman, BS’76, MD’80, HS’80-’85 , has advanced the idea...
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October 21, 2019
Duke University’s L. Ebony Boulware , MD, MPH, and Peter Ubel , MD, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election...
News
October 21, 2019
The day her eyelashes froze together turned out to be a pivotal day for Heather Whitson, MD, HS’01-’04, ‘06 . She was a medical school student at...
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October 15, 2019
The term open science describes a broad effort aimed at making scientific processes, data, analyses, and publications as accessible as possible. By...
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October 7, 2019
Dr. William G. Kaelin Jr., a Duke trustee and alumnus, was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Kaelin received both his...