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OSP has announced updates to Duke’s post-award financial management processes, which were implemented in October.  Reach out to your OSP liaison and/or implementation team representative with any questions. Project Balance Netting

Five years after sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his former student, Stanford’s Brian Kobilka, Robert Lefkowitz of the Duke University Medical Center continues lab work. At age 75, he’s still building on the groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the functions of G protein-coupled receptors which drive the effects of half of all medications.

Kampala, Uganda -  For the patients lucky enough to get it, brain surgery is only the beginning. Urgent medical care is needed to cope with the complications from the operation, from blood loss, to restoring consciousness and body temperature, to dealing with symptoms from nausea to vomiting. Yet in Mengo hospital and other locations in the developing world, this care is almost an afterthought. Intensive care teams dealing with surgery patients operate under heavy workloads, with fewer resources and equipment available than in developed countries, and with little training.

To address security risks to Duke’s network all mobile devices, including those provided by Sponsors for research purposes, that connect to the secure Duke Health wireless network will be required to install the new Duke Health Mobile Device Manager (MDM) by December 31, 2017. Enrollment is required for these devices to continue to connect to Duke systems.  

Success with global health initiatives often depends on bringing together individuals with different perspectives to deeply understand and effectively address a challenge. That’s the approach a group of faculty from Duke University, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) and Duke-NUS took when they organized a conference focused on partnerships for digital health technology innovation at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China, on October 14.

  A service opportunity organized by the Davison Council service committee.

Dysfunction of intricate astrocyte cells may underlie devastating diseases like autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy Brains are made of more than a tangled net of neurons. Star-like cells called astrocytes diligently fill in the gaps between neural nets, each wrapping itself around thousands of neuronal connections called synapses. This arrangement gives each individual astrocyte an intricate, sponge-like structure.

Changes are coming!  Get ready. Get set. Apply early!  Dr.

NIH announced that as of October 1, 2017, Certificates of Confidentiality (CoC) are now automatically issued with awards for NIH- funded human subjects research. NIH awardees no longer need to apply for a separate CoC. These certificates protect participant privacy by limiting the disclosure of identifiable information in legal proceedings and to individuals not connected with the research. This policy change is retroactive to studies that were ongoing on/after December 13, 2016.  

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