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Big thank you to all our students for completing the Independent Student Analysis survey!

Join us for our next Research Careers Ahead virtual session!  How to Budget and Manage Grant Finances 4pm, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of how to budget for a grant applications and manage finances once the project is awarded.

Two Duke School of Medicine faculty are among the 25 physician scientists who have received the Paragon Award for Research Excellence from the Doris Duke Foundation.   Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics; and Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, were honored during a ceremony that occurred on October 26.  

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 7 pilot grants of $2,000 each to SOM Biomedical PhD students. The goal of these grants is to support our students in scientific and educational efforts to bolster their graduate training experiences. These awards will help further research in a broad array of topics including cancer, gut microbes, RNA and DNA sequencing, neurons and astrocytes, developing new methods.

Niven Singh, a 5th year PhD student in Duke’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, earned a “Best Poster Award” during the 11th International Conference on Biological Physics in Seoul, South Korea in August.

Congratulations to our current student and alumnus for publications in prestigious journals. November 2023:  Rubenstein collaborated with study co-authors Maggie Sweitzer, PhD and Joseph McClernon, PhD, tobacco policy researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and members of the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center.  

One of the main reasons I chose the Duke PA Program is its holistic approach to medicine. The curriculum focuses on the social determinants of health as well as the clinical reasoning required to practice medicine. Both are important to me, as I have been on both ends of what it is like to not be “the perfect patient.”

The official list of  Clarivate’s Most Highly Cited Scientists came out on November 15. Among the 30 Duke faculty to make this list, five are also faculty in the Precision Genomics Collaboratory. Congratulations to our highly cited researchers!

Corrina Robertson Pharmacology Daniel Lew, Ph.D. 11/7/2023 Mating and Marital Fidelity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae