Families affected by Pompe disease gathered at Duke recently to celebrate the remarkable advances generated by Duke researchers that have helped people with the disease live longer and enjoy a better quality of life. Genetic specialists at Duke developed the only FDA-approved treatment for Pompe disease and continue to work on treatments to give even more patients and families a brighter future.

Giselle Y. López, MD, PhD, was a keynote speaker, along with Gabriela Maradiaga Panayotti, MD, for the inaugural Duke Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) Hispanic Heritage Month Gala on Sept. 15th at Duke’s Trent Semans Center for Health Education. She has Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, and spoke about her experiences as a Latina medical professional, emphasizing the importance of community in Latin American cultures.

A new model to predict the life expectancy of older people relies less on their specific disease diagnoses and more on factors such as the ability to grocery shop, the amount of certain small cholesterol particles circulating in their blood, and whether they never or only occasionally smoked.

The city of Durham held Pride: Durham, NC, on Sept. 24, with many from Duke Health coming together as a community to celebrate inclusion, community, family, pride, and activism.

Dr. Wolfe emerged as a key figure at Duke during the pandemic, patiently explaining the threat to the public while helping shape both the hospital’s efforts to save patients’ lives and the university’s efforts to keep students safe.

Dr. Susanna Naggie and her colleagues at Duke University School of Medicine knew that COVID-19 was disproportionately impacting communities of color through higher rates of infection, severity of disease and associated adverse outcomes. Determined to be part of the solution, they set out to understand and address these disparities in real time.

The official adaptation of "Just ASK: Increasing Diversity in Clinical Research Participation" — a course developed and piloted at Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) five years ago by Nadine Barrett, PhD — has rolled out nationally.

Yi Zeng, PhD, professor of medicine, has been selected and recognized as one of the “Healthy Ageing 50” by the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing.

Duke Health today announced the establishment of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professorship. The inaugural recipient is Robert Lefkowitz, MD, James B.

Duke scientists have identified a previously unknown barrier that separates the bloodstream from smelling cells in the upper airway of mice, likely as a way to protect the brain. But this barrier also ends up keeping some of the larger molecules of the body’s immune system out, and that may be hindering the effectiveness of vaccines.