Two Duke Trainees Among Six Scholars Selected for Duke National Clinician Scholar Program
Six scholars have been selected for the 2022-2024 cohort of Duke's National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The cohort represents the fourth group of interdisciplinary medical researchers recruited to the Duke NCSP site.
New Directions: DCI, UNC, & Wake Forest Partner with NC Indigenous Communities on Cancer Health
The community outreach and engagement teams from Duke Cancer Institute, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have launched a unique initiative that focuses on understanding and addressing the cancer-related health needs of American Indian communities in their catchment areas and beyond.
Morris, Park, and Veverka Named Newest Barr-Spach Medicine and Engineering Scholars
Duke medical students, Miranda Morris and Christine Park, and current Duke emergency medicine resident, Mitchell Veverka, MD, have been chosen as the newest recipients of the Barr-Spach Medicine and Engineering Scholarship.
Two Duke Scholars Receive North Carolina's Highest Honor
Two Duke faculty members will be honored Thursday with the state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award. Governor Roy Cooper will present the award to Timothy B. Tyson for literature and to Blake S. Wilson for science.
A Little-Known Disease Fights for …Neglect?
Duke researchers are urging the World Health Organization to recognize talaromycosis as a neglected tropical disease, a move that could bring it needed attention.
Brunel Receives SfN Swartz Prize to Recognize Outstanding Achievement
This year's Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) will honor a group of leading researchers that includes Nicolas Brunel, Duke University professor of neurobiology and of physics.
One month before shutting down his lab, Paul Modrich looks back on his pathway to the Nobel
An interview with Dr. Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. Dr. Modrich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly with Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK, and Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
Kevin Thomas named First Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Duke School of Medicine
Kevin Thomas MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, has been named Duke University School of Medicine’s first Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Blue Devil of the Week: In the Thick of the Pandemic Fight
Dr. Charlene Wong works to improve and protect the health of the community
93-Year-Old Joins Duke CTSI Study to Help Solve Kidney Disease Mystery in People of African Ancestry
At age 93, Pearl Asbury joined a study at the Duke CTSI office in Kannapolis at the North Carolina Research Campus to better understand kidney disease in people of African ancestry. “I always wanted to be involved in a study just for Afro-Americans. It is wonderful because for so much of our history, our health has not been understood,” said Asbury, who became the 100th person to enroll.