Requesting Access in OnCore
The OnCore Service Team has noticed that there continues to be confusion regarding requesting OnCore Access. To assist the Research Community in requesting OnCore Access, the correct process for requesting access has been outlined below along with notes where requestors often make mistakes in the access request process.
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CTSI Population Health Improvement Co-Development Awards: LOI Deadline January 24, 2019
Encourages and facilitates new investigative community-academic partnerships designed to improve community health and may also include health research that advances the science of stakeholder and community-engaged research.
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2018: The Year in Discovery at Duke
School of Medicine stories are among Duke Today's best reads in Duke scholarship of 2018.
Scientists Find Stomach Cells in Lung Cancer
A surprising discovery of unexpected cells in a cancer tumor underscores the amazing resilience and plasticity of cancer cells. Read More.
Revised Common Rule 45 CFR 46 Effective on January 21, 2019
As you know, the revised Common Rule 45 CFR 46 will take effect on January 21, 2019. Your studies will be affected in the following ways:
Duke Alum Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, Named FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drugs
Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, a Duke University School of Medicine alumna and adjunct professor, has been appointed the FDA’s new principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs. Her appointment will begin early next year.
Inaugural Cohort in National Clinician Scholars Program Named at Duke, VA
Researchers Represent Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Durham VA Health Care System
Three physicians and two post-doctoral nurses will comprise the inaugural cohort for Duke’s National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The cohort represents the first group of interdisciplinary medical researchers selected for the newly established Duke NCSP site.
Gersbach awarded gene therapy research grant from Gilbert Family Foundation
The Gilbert Family Foundation, a private foundation established by Jennifer and Dan Gilbert, announced its first major initiative around gene therapy research.
Kornbluth and Sullenger Named to National Academy of Inventors
Duke University Provost Sally Kornbluth and Bruce Sullenger, PhD, have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) class of 2018. They are among 148 new fellows this year and join 11 other Duke faculty who have been so recognized by the 7-year-old organization.
Roadmap Reveals Shortcut to Recreate Key HIV Antibody for Vaccines
HIV evades the body’s immune defenses through a multitude of mutations, and antibodies produced by the host’s immune system to fight HIV also follow convoluted evolutionary pathways that have been challenging to track.
This complexity has made it difficult for researchers to develop a preventive HIV vaccine that elicits effective antibodies similar to those that evolve in some people living with HIV. This is a task akin to retracing a traveler’s exact journey knowing only the destination, with few clues to the myriad possible origins and routes.