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The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the employment landscape in North Carolina, nationwide and around the world.  While the economic downturn resulting from the pandemic has created vast uncertainties, many PhDs in the biomedical sciences will find it is also a time of unprecedented opportunity. 

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has funded up to $50 million to evaluate hydroxychloroquine as a preventive drug for the novel coronavirus.

The multimillion-dollar cryo-electron microscope is able to “see” proteins in atomic level detail by taking hundreds of thousands of molecular images of a biological specimen and then classifying and averaging them with powerful software to create a 3D image, and ultimately, a model of the protein.

Duke University Hospital has joined the first national study to test a potential therapy for COVID-19, giving hospitalized adult patients with significant symptoms an option to participate.

Tips from three Duke experts about various ways panic affects our lives -- and what we can do to mitigate it.

Dr. Cathleen Colón-Emeric has older parents who live nearby. Here are some of her suggestions for navigating the new and urgent conversations and decisions facing many families, including her own.

Representatives of the DCRI and Duke Forge contributed to a paper that recommended the NIH strengthen its data sharing requirements, beginning by requiring sharing of clinical trial data.   DCRI faculty Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS,  and Frank Rockhold, PhD, along with Duke Forge’s Eric Perakslis, PhD, contributed to a recently published paper in Science suggesting next steps that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) could take in order to expand its leadership in data sharing.

Excerpt from an article published March 20, 2020 on the Med School Blog Kind and supportive classmates. Inspiring mentors. Life-changing interactions with patients. These are all facets of the Duke University medical school experience that graduating students will take with them when they move to their residency programs later this year.

Kind and supportive classmates. Inspiring mentors. Life-changing interactions with patients. These are all facets of the Duke University medical school experience that graduating students will take with them when they move to their residency programs later this year. We interviewed five members of the Class of 2020 about their favorite memories from their time at Duke and their aspirations for the future. Match Day 2020 article 

AOA elects a small number of students, residents and fellows each year who exemplify the qualities of scholastic performance, leadership, fairness in dealing with colleagues, compassion for others, integrity of character, and service to the school and community at large. Membership in AOA is a distinction that accompanies a physician throughout his or her career. Please join us in congratulating the following members of our community who were elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society for the Spring of 2020.