Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

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.

Get FOCUSed

The goals of this FOCUS cluster are to explore genome sciences in various contexts as well as explore the biomedical, biological, historical, technical, and ethical implications of genomic advances and the questions that these advances pose for understanding the past and contemplating the future of biomedicine.

Using Supercomputers to Checkmate Cancer

Duke PhD student Marcel Frenkel knows this problem well, as he watched his mom’s pancreatic cancer develop resistance to her therapies and pass away in 2015.

Wray Named AAAS Fellow

Greg Wray is one of five faculty members and one staff member from Duke to be named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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.

Recent grad charting her own path

As 3,000 first-year students begin preparing for their Duke career, recent graduate Sarina Madhavan has some advice for them