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School of Medicine researchers Diego Bohórquez Ph.D. and Opeyemi Olabisi M.D., Ph.D. have been given two of the NIH Director’s “New Innovator,” awards, which are for high-risk/high-reward work being done by early-stage investigators. The award provides $1.5 million for a five-year project. The Duke scholars are among just 93 “highly creative scientists” nationwide to receive the grants, which fund innovative and impactful research.

As part of a massive national effort to improve and modernize flu shots, the Duke Human Vaccine Institute has received three research contracts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), with an initial award of approximately $29.6 million in first-year funding.  

With the healthcare industry constantly changing, Monica Card, a Revenue Cycle Manager for Duke University Health System, knew there was a need to advance her existing knowledge in the areas of business and IT. 

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced Steven R. Patierno, PhD, as the recipient of the 2019 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. Patierno presented his award lecture in San Francisco on Sept. 20 at the 12th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.

Research teams from Duke received more than $24 million in federal grants to address challenges related to pain and the opioid crisis, with more than $19 million awarded to investigators from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), the world’s largest academic research organization.

Summary of the Research Town Hall “On the Respect of Data” We live in the era of Dataism – said David Brooks years ago and, more recently, Yuval Noah Harari who both used this term to describe the Big Data Revolution. Yet, data are created and used by people and, sometimes, people may handle or analyze data carelessly whether intentionally or not.

Interview with Dr. Adrian Bejan, J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University   Professor Adrian Bejan, PhD is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University and a well-known name in Physics and Engineering Science worldwide. His research areas include engineering science, heat transfer, convection, design and evolution in nature. In 2018 Dr.

Of late, there has been a flurry of conversation around research activities that involve others outside of Duke.  How should things be reported? What if there is no financial conflict of interest?  Federal regulation requires that institutions like Duke need to make determinations, and that requires that the information is known.  Here is what you need to know if you struggle to find the answer.  

“Dear DOSI”: Questions from the Audience of our Research Town Halls  David Carlson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke, answers to the numerous questions inspired by his presentation about the Nuts and Bolts of Respecting Research Data  

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