Tony Coles, MD’86, has served since 2018 as chair of the board of directors for Cerevel Therapeutics, a company dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the brain to treat neurological diseases.

Kenneth Poss, PhD, is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Biology in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine

Lawrence David, PhD, and Melanie Thomas, MD, have been named Fulbright Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Fulbright Scholars Program awards fellowships to faculty, administrators, and other professionals to teach, research, and conduct professional projects for up to one year in more than 135 different countries. 

A few days before graduation, Duke Medical Alumni Association invited graduating MD students and their families to a uniquely Duke experience. Groups had the chance to climb the vertigo-inducing, stone steps – all 239 of them – up through the spiral staircase inside Duke Chapel's tower, leading all the way to the roof.

With extreme heat waves now five times more likely to occur than 150 years ago, the risk of other extreme events such as wildfires has also risen. a multidisciplinary team of scientists from around the world set out to build a model that will allow health officials and policymakers to predict the impact of wildfires anywhere in the world on their communities.

Anthony Filiano, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, has received a $375,000 grant from the Rosenau Family Research Foundation to support his research on Krabbe disease.

Clare Smith, PhD, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. This award provides four years of funding to young investigators to explore some of the most pressing questions in human health and medicine.

In 2021, Huang co-led a group of scientists undertaking the task of mapping out the mouse’s brain. Though the final atlas “only” charted one large portion of the brain, the 17 papers from over 250 scientists provided an unparalleled roadmap – at a single-cell resolution – of the entire motor cortex in mice, marmosets and humans.

Ralph Snyderman served as chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine from 1989 to 2004, leading the development of the Duke University Health System and serving as its first president and CEO.

The Office of Learning Environment and Wellbeing will launch a pilot project to investigate the feasibility and impact of a cross-disciplinary peer support program on connectedness, burnout, and wellness for students in health professions education programs.