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Duke invests in students’ health through new wearables initiative

Scholars Photo Day   Need a new photo for your Scholars profile? Come to Scholars Photo Day! Tuesday, November 13th | 1:45 to 5:00 Brodhead Center, Second Floor, Room 247 in the Chaplin Family Lounge Free and open to all Duke faculty, researchers, graduate/PhD students, and anyone with a Scholars profile who needs an up-to-date professional head shot.  

Geeta Swamy, MD, has been named vice dean and associate vice provost for scientific integrity for Duke University and the School of Medicine. Dr. Swamy will begin her service in this new role, effective immediately.  Dr. Swamy previously served as senior associate dean for regulatory oversight & research initiatives in clinical research for the School of Medicine. She is an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. 

The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), in concert with the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, will serve as the coordinating center for a new project to promote genomic medicine in clinical practice. The National Human Genome Research Institute, which is part of National Institutes of Health, has awarded two grants to Duke that will total about $9 million over five years.

Duke University has been awarded a four-year grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide hands-on laboratory experience to undergraduate students through the Amgen Scholars Program.  Duke is now one of 24 elite institutions across the U.S., Europe, Asia and, for the first time, Australia and Canada, to host the program.

  The next event in the new Research Town Hall series will take place Nov 1. As part of this event, Dr. Larry Carin, Vice Provost for Research, will give an overview of opportunities and initiatives at Duke related to “big data” and data science, a landscape that has grown considerably at Duke in recent years. Come hear about what’s new!

Two current Duke medical students participated in the College Advising Corps before applying to medical school. Working as a doctor and serving as a college adviser may seem like very different careers, but Evan Murray, T’17, sees quite a few parallels.  “Much like patients seeking care,” Murray said, “students who come into our office are seeking guidance through a very complicated process, and our responsibility is to break it down in a way that fits their needs and helps them make the right choices.” 

A team of Duke authors, including lead author Rebecca Brouwer and senior author Denise Snyder, have been selected to receive the Rod Rose Award for best article in the Journal of Research Administration, 2017.

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