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PhD candidate William Butler discovered that a particular protein, called glypican-3, is expressed on the surface of prostate cancer cells that resist hormonal treatments, and that the protein is critical to their function.

Registration open: Gopen Writing Seminar and Write Winning Grants Seminars   Registration is now open for a series of seminars to be held this summer in support of scholarly writing and grantwriting for Duke faculty, trainees, and staff.    

The SOM 1st year biomedical students and those students taking BIOTRAIN 720 Grant Writing class were introduced in the fall semester to the “hidden curriculum”. But everyone – students, faculty, staff – should be aware of the invisible skills that students are expected to acquire while in graduate school.

Lyla Stanland (Luftig lab) is presenting her thesis research at the annual meeting for the American Association for Cancer Reasearch in Orlando, FL, April 14-19. Becky Stewart (Fox lab) is giving a talk at the Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago, IL, March 1-5. Duc Huynh (Boyce lab) is attending the Advanced Neurobiology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory from June 6 – July 19.

Steven Shen Pathology John Sampson, M.D., Ph.D. 2/3/2023 IL-12 CAR T cell Immunotherapy for Heterogeneous Brain Tumors

The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (B&B) at Duke University is pleased to accept applications for its 2023 summer bioinformatics short-course in Microbiome Immunology Cancer (MIC).

Dennis Ko, MD, PhD, associate professor in molecular genetics and microbiology, was among five School of Medicine faculty to be elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists.  

Genetics at Duke ranked 8th in the country for NIH funding, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 17 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 antibiotic natural evolution, prostate cancer, vascular malformations, and more.