In this month’s EDI Spotlight, Redmond shares about her unique role as director of assessment and research in the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Four School of Medicine faculty members have been selected to receive 2023 Physician-Scientist “Strong Start” awards.

Monique Starks is the first investigator in the U.S. to be funded by the National Institutes of Health to explore development of a drone network that is capable of delivering AEDs to OHCA bystanders, and she’s flying high with some promising early observations.

Current medical standards for accessing stroke risk perform worse for Black Americans than they do for white Americans, potentially creating a self-perpetuating driver of health inequities.

How our bodies sense our environment and react to it is a big question, and how we answer it can have important implications for drug development.

Three individuals and two teams within the School of Medicine are among Duke’s 2022-23 Presidential Award winners. 

As chief operating officer at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI), Thomas Denny is in the unique position of helping people fight flu and HIV, developing the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines, and all the while leading an annual $120 million enterprise.

Duke cancer biologist Jason Somarelli, PhD, will collaborate with a group of Duke marine scientists to explore the cellular adaptations that some whales possess that gives them such an amazing ability to tolerate low-oxygen (hypoxic) environments as they dive and forage for food.

Enthusiasm for applying AI tools to some of healthcare’s most vexing problems is helping drive the adoption of technologies that, until relatively recently, had not undergone the kinds of rigorous scrutiny routinely applied to drugs and medical devices.

The Duke University Preparing Research Scholars In bioMEdical Sciences Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PRIME-PREP) is an NIH-funded R25 $1.2M grant to develop and implement 1-year postbaccalaureate program.