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Xiling Shen, Ph.D., received $400,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to become a part of CZI’s Seed Networks for the Human Cell Atlas, along with 37 other collaborative science teams.

Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN), has fewer than 100 known cases, which makes research – and therefore treatment options – scarce.

The School of Medicine Office for Faculty is now accepting applications for the Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists at Duke. Established by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and supported by Dean Mary Klotman, the Fund provides supplements of up to $30,000-$50,000 as funds allow to clinician-scientists with significant caregiving responsibilities. Supplements are for 1 year, with the possible option to apply for a second year. This application cycle is for funding from January 1-December 31, 2020. 

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Duke Neurologist, Karissa Gable, MD, is investigating the pathophysiologic mechanisms of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), advancing our understanding of this autoimmune disease and opening new potential roles for treatment.

School of Medicine faculty members Anthony Filiano, PhD; Christopher Holley, MD, PhD; and Xiaoping Zhong, MD, PhD, were selected to receive funding  from the Translating Duke Health Initiative (TDHI) for their research in immunology. Each received $75,000.

The Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) will remain at the lead of the nation’s effort to develop an HIV vaccine, receiving a third, seven-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases totaling at least $129 million.  

Michael Boyce, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, will receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), presented to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers. The award is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in coordination with participating federal departments and agencies.

Brigid L. M. Hogan, PhD, chair emeritus of Duke’s Department of Cell Biology, and George Barth Geller Professor in the School of Medicine, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

A Duke University School of Medicine graduate student has award-winning ideas for how to boost excitement about the biomedical sciences among the millennial generation.  Grace Beggs, a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Biochemistry, was one of three graduate students in the nation to win this year’s Lasker Foundation Essay Contest, which challenged young scientists and clinicians around the world to develop innovative ideas to engage young people in learning about the biomedical sciences.