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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).

The classes from MMCi help me understand how to use IT from a business perspective.  I now take the IT knowledge I have and make it meaningful and actionable.

Congratulations to the 431 students from the Duke University School of Medicine who graduated on Sunday, May 12, 2019, marking the successful culmination of their hard work and dedication. Students received degrees in the following programs:

A new international, multi-university center co-led by the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the University of Connecticut aims to develop a vaccine for syphilis. The Cooperative Research Center is funded with a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. 

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Joanna Downer, PhD, associate dean for research development in the School of Medicine, has been named a 2019 Rising Star by the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP). The organization recognizes up to three members annually who have made outstanding volunteer contributions and show great potential for future contributions to the organization and the research development profession. Downer was recognized at the annual conference on May 1. 

Nine faculty members in the School of Medicine have been awarded distinguished professorships by Duke University. The honors were presented at a dinner on May 2, 2019. Distinguished professorships are awarded to the most distinguished faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary scholarship in advancing science and improving human health.  Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Professor of Otolaryngology Howard Wayne Francis, MD, MBA

Colin S. Duckett, PhD, Vice Dean for Basic Science; James Supdich, PhD; Robert Leftkowitz, MD; Mary Klotman, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine  

Computer-generated vectors show the motion and speed of cell nuclei within a developing fruitfly embryo. These swirling currents keep nuclei spread out evenly and in sync to ensure they undergo the same number of divisions.(DiTalia Lab) The very beginnings of life inside a tiny developing embryo are mesmerizing to watch.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has selected Debara L. Tucci, M.D., to lead the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) as its new director.