Shah Named Associate Dean and Director of Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory
Svati Shah, MD, MHS, has been named Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of the Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory. The collaboratory is a new coordinating center that will serve as the nexus for genetics and genomics activities in the School of Medicine. As director, Dr. Shah will coordinate efforts among institutes, centers and departments in all areas of genetics and genomics, ranging from fundamental basic science to clinical genomics and precision medicine.
Guts and Glory: David Lab Studies Gut Microbiome
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Using Supercomputers to Checkmate Cancer
Gersbach awarded gene therapy research grant from Gilbert Family Foundation
Wray Named AAAS Fellow
ATTRACTing scientists to Duke to study vascular biology and stroke
On Thursday, October 11, Doug Marchuk will host an all-day meeting with seven other project leaders from the Leducq Foundation Network, ATTRACT: Arterial flow as an attractor for endothelial cell migration. Marchuk is serving as the North American coordinator on this grant. During the meeting, each project leader will present their current research for the project.
Targeted epigenome editing as ‘next generation drugs’ for Parkinson’s disease
By 2020, the Parkinson’s Foundation estimates that nearly one million people will be living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the U.S. That’s more than the number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig’s disease combined. Researchers at Duke are taking action.