Colin S. Duckett, PhD, and Chuan-Yuan Li, DSc, have been elected as 2023 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinguished lifetime honors in the scientific community.

Graduate students at Duke University School of Medicine have been honored by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

A love of science, an eagerness to help people, and a propensity for leadership has propelled Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA, into the role of President of Duke Regional Hospital. It’s the latest achievement in his 22-year career at Duke.

Deryl Hart, MD's pioneering work on the use of ultraviolet radiation as a means of combating airborne infections in the operating room won national acclaim. As the University's 4th president, he oversaw the desegregation of the undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools.

Duke medical student Virginie Marchand spent her entire 3rd year at Duke in Tanzania, where she joined a team focused on HIV stigma during labor and delivery.

More than 210,000 people in North Carolina have Alzheimer's disease, and many others have other types of dementia. The North Carolina Registry for Brain Health aims to help relieve the burden by educating North Carolinians, giving them an opportunity to participate in research, and helping researchers recruit study volunteers.

Mary E. Klotman, MD, speaks with Damon Tweedy, MD about how the medical profession can address ongoing concerns about our nation’s mental health.

A large international study led by Duke researchers found that the diabetes drug empagliflozin slowed the time to first hospitalization for heart failure and reduced the total number of subsequent heart failure hospitalizations in patients after they had suffered acute myocardial infarction.

Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, FACS, has been awarded the 2024 Flance-Karl Award by the American Surgical Association (ASA). The Flance-Karl Award recognizes surgeons in the U.S. who have made seminal contributions in basic laboratory research which has application to clinical surgery.

A new mathematical model offers hope for better prediction and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.