Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute, working with a health technology company, have developed an AI-powered biomarker that could help determine which patients need extended hormone therapy and which could safely avoid it.

A Duke Health team led by Joseph Turek, MD, PhD, performed the world's first on-table heart reanimation for infant transplant, an advance that could dramatically expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants.

A team led by Thuy Le, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and global health, developed a tool that significantly improves the speed and accuracy of diagnosis for a rare fungal disease called talaromycosis.

In this conversation, Dean Klotman and Matthew Barber, MD, president of the Duke Health Integrated Practice (DHIP) and vice dean for clinical affairs, reflect on DHIP’s two-year anniversary. They highlight its role in unifying Duke Health’s clinical, academic, and community missions.

As expensive new weight loss medicines Wegovy and Mounjaro shake up obesity treatment, the Duke study provides a reminder of the lasting savings surgery can deliver. 

Research led by Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD, indicates that key proteins in the ankles are similar to those used by salamanders to regenerate severed limbs and might hold the key to a new therapeutic approach for joint disease.

A team from the Duke Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery has performed the first robotic bilateral lung transplant in the Southeast, and one of the first in the U.S. Duke is one of only a handful of centers in the nation performing fully robotic lung transplants.

The 230-acre campus will include a 500-bed children’s hospital, a children’s outpatient care center, 103 children and adolescent behavioral health beds, and a research and education enterprise backed by the UNC and Duke schools of medicine.

Duke University School of Medicine researchers will launch a new national Center of Excellence for Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling (MISM), funded by a U54 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Duke Physician Assistant Program held its annual White Coat Ceremony on June 27, marking the transition from classroom learning to clinical training for 89 students in the class of 2026.