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Erich Jarvis on how the discoveries we make are influenced by our cultural experience​ Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis received the 2015 Ernest Everett Just Award from the American Society for Cell Biology to recognize his outstanding scientific achievements as a minority scientist. Jarvis, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, delivered an essay at the ASCB meeting in San Diego in December.  Read

Doctors at Duke Medicine have tested a new injectable agent that causes cancer cells in a tumor to fluoresce, potentially increasing a surgeon’s ability to locate and remove all of a cancerous tumor on the first attempt. The imaging technology was developed through collaboration with scientists at Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Lumicell Inc.

The History of Medicine Collections in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke, holds more than 20,000 monographs and 4,000 manuscripts, as well as illustrations, medical instruments, photographs and a variety of medical artifacts that document the history of medicine, biomedical science, health and disease in the global context of the Western medical tradition ranging from the 12th-20th centuries.

Students, faculty and staff of the Duke Master of Biomedical Sciences program celebrated its first anniversary this week in recognition of the December 6, 2014 Board of Trustees approval of the School of Medicine’s newest degree.

The 2015 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place at Stockholm Concert Hall on Thursday, 10 December, 2015 Videos Speech for the Chemistry Prize  Granting of the Chemistry Prize  Dr. Modrich's Nobel Lecture in Chemistry   

The American Academy of Ophthalmology held its 2015 annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada November 14-17, 2015. Join us in congratulating the Duke Eye Center award winners and over 30 Duke Eye Center Faculty and Fellows who presented instructional courses, skills transfer sessions, scientific posters and papers during the meeting.  We are proud of our faculty and staff for their commitment and influence in the field of ophthalmology. Read More

Five Duke University School of Medicine faculty members were elected as fellows of the AAAS for 2015, in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership. The new fellows will be recognized in a February Fellows Forum at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.    

Older women with early-stage, invasive breast cancer had better survival rates than what was estimated by a popular online tool for predicting survival, according to researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute. The finding provides a stronger rationale for women over the age of 70 -- even those who have additional minor health concerns -- to undergo aggressive treatments such as chemotherapy to prevent their cancer from returning.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Test Your Knowledge quiz in the September issue of the School of Medicine enewsletter. 

Once again, Basic Science Day drew a packed house, with faculty, staff and students from across the School of Medicine attending the sixth annual event on Monday, November 16. The day was filled with speakers representing all of the basic science departments. Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, welcomed the crowd, followed by Vice Dean for Basic Science Raphael Valdivia, PhD.  Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and James B. Duke Professor, was the featured keynote speaker.