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Alejandro Aballay, PhD, professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and director of the Center for Host Microbial Interactions at Duke University, is a recipient of a prestigious NIH MERIT Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research project on the role of the nervous system in controlling immunity.

Mark Stacy, MD, vice dean for clinical research for the School of Medicine, has accepted a new role as dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, beginning on September 1, 2017.  Dr. Stacy will step down from his position as vice dean at the end of August as he makes his transition to this exciting leadership opportunity.

Mary Klotman, M.D. -- a nationally renowned physician-scientist and academic leader who has served as chair of Duke’s Department of Medicine for almost seven years – has officially assumed her new role as dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University. 

Impacting the Lives of Patients through Venture Capital By Aliza Inbari Growing up in a family of physicians, Garheng Kong, MD’01, PhD’00, MBA’03, knew he would continue the family tradition and become a physician like his father, uncles, and cousins. “The joke in my family is that you have to be an MD before you do anything, even if you want to flip hamburgers at McDonald’s,” says Kong, founder and managing partner of HealthQuest Capital.

Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone of zebrafish that could give insight into why spinal discs of longer-lived organisms like humans degenerate with age. The repair mechanism apparently protects the fluid-filled cells of the notochord, the precursor of the spine, from mechanical stress as a young fish begins swimming. Notochord cells go on to form the gelatinous center of intervertebral discs, the flat, round cushions wedged between each vertebrae that act as shock absorbers for the spine.

Warren Kibbe, PhD, acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and director of the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, will join Duke University School of Medicine in August as chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and chief data officer for the Duke Cancer Institute.

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Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, dean, Duke University School of Medicine, was elected to serve on the MIT Corporation — the board of trustees for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her five-year term will begin on July 1, 2017. Dean Andrews is an alumna of MIT, receiving her PhD in biology in 1985. As of July 1, the corporation will consist of 76 distinguished leaders in education, science, engineering, and industry.

Randall Kramer, professor at the Duke Global Health Institute and the Nicholas School for the Environment, has been named interim director of the Duke Global Health Institute, taking office at the end of June when founding director Michael Merson steps down.