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Donald McDonnell, PhD is a 2019 recipient of Duke Medical Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. It’s not particularly unusual for biomedical scientists to move from academia into the pharmaceutical industry. Donald McDonnell took the opposite route: before joining the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine, he worked for a number of years for the biopharmaceutical company Ligand Pharmaceuticals in California. This early exposure to pharma and drug development played a major role in his highly successful academic career.

Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD, FRS is the 2019 recipient of Duke Medical Alumni Association’s Lifetime Achievement award. She is a pioneer and leader in the field of developmental biology. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to isolate Hox genes in mammals and to propose that they control tissue patterning in embryos across evolution.

Scientists from diverse training and backgrounds, including neurologists, basic scientists, environmental engineers, and psychiatrists gathered from around the world at the Washington Duke Inn this May to find new ways to treat, understand, and, eventually, cure Parkinson’s disease.

Trouble with simple financial tasks may be early sign of dementias such as Alzheimer’s Aging adults often show signs of slowing when it comes to managing their finances, such as calculating their change when paying cash or balancing an account ledger.

Understanding this process could lead to innovative and improved therapies   Prostate cancer often becomes lethal as it spreads to the bones, and the process behind this deadly feature could potentially be turned against it as a target for bone-targeting radiation and potential new therapies.

Thursday, September 19, 2019, Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center 8:00am-3:30 pm - Clinical Science Departments 8:00am-5:00pm - Basic Science Departments You are invited to this year's School of Medicine New Faculty Orientation. Plan on attending if you've joined the faculty in the past several years and haven't attended one yet. Orientation is a good way to network with your colleagues, meet some leaders in the school, and learn about resources for navigating your career at Duke. Sessions will include:

Duke Forge Associate Director Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, has been named a 2019 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in Washington, D.C.

Duke Doctoral Academy Monday, May 20 through Friday, May 24 and Tuesday, May 28 through Saturday, June 1

                    Foreign “relationships” As Jim Luther, Duke Vice President for Finance and Sponsor Liaison and Research Compliance Officer emphasized, foreign relationships, regardless of financial components, should be considered for management & appropriate disclosure in grant documents.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Research Technician Support RFA   This RFA is now open and will close May 15, 2019. The intent of the BWF Technician Support RFA is to promote early career research productivity and continuity for residents, fellows, and junior faculty by providing $25,000 to cover a portion of effort of a laboratory technician or research assistant to be dedicated to the applicant's research project.  Eligible applicants will be conducting basic or translational research (laboratory or computational biology).