PCLT Instructor is Recipient of Department of Medicine Faculty Excellence in Education Awards
Patrick Hemming, M.D., an instructor in the Primary Care Leadership Track program is a recipient of the Department of Medicine faculty Excellence in Education Award. This annual initiative provides awards in the amount of $5,000 per person to recognize one faculty member in each division for excellence in medical education.
Call for Applications for Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists at Duke
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 option to apply for a second year. This application cycle is for funding from January 1-December 31, 2019.
Duke University Partners with Vivli to Engage in a New Era of Open Science
Duke University School of Medicine has announced a partnership with Vivli, a nonprofit organization that today launched a new data-sharing and analytics platform.
Beam Signing for New Duke DPT/Orthopaedics/SoN Building
The contractor for the new 102,000-square foot facility that will house Duke’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the School of Medicine’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, School of Nursing, and Interprofessional Education and Care, has been able to expedite the steel erection for the new building. If the weather cooperates, they are scheduled to be finished by July 25th - a month earlier than expected. All construction is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2019.
Researchers Solve Mystery of How Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Enters the Central Nervous System
A deadly feature of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is its invasion of the central nervous system.
ALL in the central nervous system is very difficult to treat, because most drugs are blocked from the organ system due to a "blood-brain barrier" designed to protect the brain. How cancer cells enter the central nervous system has been an unanswered question for researchers and clinicians for decades.
Reddy Lab Investigates Glucocorticoid Receptor Binding Sites, Target Genes
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a hormone-inducible transcription factor involved in metabolic and anti-inflammatory gene expression responses
Northwestern’s Xunrong Luo, kidney transplant researcher and clinician, to take leadership role at Duke Transplant Center
Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, will join the Duke Division of Nephrology on September 1, 2018.
Mathers Foundation Funds an "Expedition" to Map Novel Structures in the Human Genome
Most people are familiar with the twisted ladder shape of DNA’s double helix. But sometimes, for reasons no one fully understands, the normal double helix structure is turned on its head. Duke University School of Medicine researcher Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD, aims to create a map of these novel structures in the human genome.
His proposal to do so has been selected for $1 million in funding by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
Three Duke Med Students Named Albert Schweitzer Fellows
Three Duke Medical students will spend the next year improving community health and developing lifelong leadership skills.
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) has announced the selection of its 2018-19 class of NC Schweitzer Fellows. Twenty-eight graduate students will spend the next year learning to effectively address the social factors that impact health, and developing lifelong leadership skills. In doing so, they will follow the example set by famed physician-humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, for whom their Fellowship is named.