Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, associate professor in Duke’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, has been named North Carolina's 2021 Family Physician of the Year by the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP). The honor is the most prestigious award from the NCAFP, the state's largest specialty medical association, comprised of more than 4,300 members.

When Joe Hoffman accepted a friend’s invitation to attend the Duke Children’s Classic, he had no idea he would be starting an ongoing relationship that would last nearly 30 years and continue until today.

Congratulations to the following individuals, who have completed the 2021 ALICE Program. The Academic Leadership, Innovation, and Collaborative Engagement program is a yearlong leadership development program for mid-career women faculty in leadership roles.

Race, and how people are treated differently because of it, leads to major differences in health outcomes for cancer and other diseases. As a bit of an outsider, Akinyemiju (pronounced Ah-keen-yah-MEE-jew) saw this aspect of culture and health as something to be examined and dissected. She has built her career doing that.

Duke Ph.D. students Jessica Waibl Polania (left) and Selena Lorrey are looking for ways to use the body's own immune system to target and treat glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer. They are conducting their research in Peter Fecci’s lab as part of the Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program.

A new custom-developed tool, called an organ-on-a-chip, shows potential for making pre-clinical testing more accurate.

Congratulations to the 2021 ADVANCE-UP program graduates! 

With a few large leadership gifts and some strategically placed advertising in national media, Duke University is launching a new fundraising effort designed to elevate excellence in the sciences. The faculty recruitment and retention effort, called Duke Science and Technology, will give the university resources to expand core strengths in Duke’s research, extending to nearly every corner of the university.

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.

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.