Duke’s long leadership in vaccine research and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute’s (DHVI) dogged 25-year pursuit of answers to HIV put the university and health system in an excellent position to address the sudden, global challenge of the novel RNA coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 when it began to sweep around the world in 2020.  

Women’s reproductive health encompasses a continuum of a woman’s lifespan. Five Duke experts addressed a number of these topics on Feb. 2 as a part of Research Week 2022. 

Duke University School of Medicine was awarded more than $608 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2021, ranking third nationally.

Duke University recently launched Duke Science and Technology (DST), a fundraising and faculty recruitment and retention effort aimed at elevating and sustaining excellence in the sciences. The effort is designed to accelerate the recruitment of new faculty and expand core research strengths in three main areas: resilience of the body and brain, computation, and materials science.

Elizabeth Hughes, a postdoc in Raphael Valdivia's lab, has been named a Damon Runyon Fellow

The emerging field of onco-fertility brings together oncology and reproductive endocrinology specialties to maximize the reproductive potential of cancer patients and survivors.

MRI scans of children aged 9–10 years with ADHD showed few differences in structural brain measurements compared to their unaffected peers, according to a study led by a Duke University School of Medicine researcher.

Duke neuroscientists discuss the challenges and technological achievements that help us better understand our complex brain.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the launch of the Division of Child and Family Well-Being to help achieve its vision of children who are healthy and who thrive in safe, stable and nurturing families, schools and communities.

Two Duke-led research projects exploring the role that infections or microbes might play in Alzheimer’s disease have received $50,000 Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Norins Pilot Award