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Deborah Koltai, PhD, and Jason Somarelli, PhD, are the winners of the 2021 Bass Connections Leadership Award.

Surgeons use 3D printed models to plan complex heart surgeries

Some guys have it all: the muscle, the power, the high social status, the accelerated aging.

OBGE is pleased to announce the pilot phase of a new student professional development opportunity, the OBGE Administrative Fellowship. The 2021 inaugural OBGE Administrative Fellow is Calla Telzrow, a 5th year MGM student in Dr. Andy Alspaugh’s lab. Calla is undertaking a 6-month fellowship during which she will focus on two projects: 1)  establishing a peer mentoring resource for SOM PhD students and 2) development of BIOTRAIN 701, a new Professionalism Course offered centrally to first year SOM PhD students in Fall 2021.

Autism Spectrum Disorder can be detected as early as six to twelve months old and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children be screened between twelve and eighteen months of age. But most diagnoses happen after the age of 4, and later detection makes it more difficult and expensive to treat. One in 40 children is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Duke currently serves about 3,000 ASD patients per year. To improve care for patients with ASD, Duke researchers have been working to develop a data science approach to early detection.

Twin 9-year-old girls at Duke Health became the first in the United States to participate in Pfizer and BioNTech Phase 1 study to evaluate safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The School of Medicine honors three staff members annually with the Research Staff Appreciation Award, in recognition of their exemplary support in the conduct of research projects.

Dean Klotman narrates a video of highlights from the past year and offers her thanks for the commitment of faculty, staff and students to fulfilling the missions of excellence in patient care, research and discovery, education and community service.

The award honors senior leaders who have significantly enhanced family medicine’s credibility by a sustained, long-term commitment to family medicine in academic settings.

Duke Health-led researchers identified a key reason hormone therapies eventually fail, while also laying out a way to bypass the problem.