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Duke team challenges the paradigm about fluid as a symptom of heart failure One of the key features of heart failure is an accumulation of fluid in the heart and lungs that causes life-threatening symptoms, including shortness of breath, lightheadedness and an elevated heart rate.  This fluid buildup has long been considered a symptom of heart failure, but researchers at Duke University Medical School have explored a new theory: It might be a key contributor, and a fairly treatable one, at that.

When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally assumed that these chemical sensors resided exclusively in the lining of our noses. But then olfactory receptors started turning up in the strangest places -- the lungs, liver, skin, heart, testes and intestines. Nearly a quarter of a century later, researchers are still wondering what these receptors are doing in such disparate locations.

[Video:https://youtu.be/iyOpqBVtSMY]  From gene editing to stimulating the body’s innate mechanisms of tissue repair, Duke scientists and engineers are tackling different ways to someday provide treatments for patients with injury or degeneration of musculoskeletal tissues. Video provided by Regeneration Next.

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 Innovation Speaker, Tom Insel, MD  

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about processes, particularly how we facilitate development of complex research grants. But as we capture and re-design our own processes, we must place our work in the context of how complex, deadline-driven goals get accomplished.

The next event in a new presentation series on grants and research will take place May 29. As part of this event, I'll be moderating a faculty panel discussion on research quality -- what the NIH is referring to as "rigor and reproducibility". The discussion will cover how to convey approaches to rigor and reproducibility in grant applications and how to establish, maintain, and enhance a culture of research quality within and across a variety of research settings.

Kathleen Cooney, M.D., a medical oncologist and internationally known physician scientist, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Cooney joins Duke from the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she is the H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Professor, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, and member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

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Congratulations to the 411 students from the Duke University School of Medicine who graduated on Sunday, May 13, 2018, marking the successful culmination of their hard work and dedication. Students received degrees in the following programs: