Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B.

A blood test successfully predicted knee osteoarthritis at least eight years before tell-tale signs of the disease appeared on x-rays, Duke Health researchers report.

Svati Shah is quoted in Time Magazine about the importance of discussing your heart health history with your family.

First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, EdD, visited Durham on March 20 to deliver remarks on women’s health research to a group of about 40 invited guests from Duke University, NC Central, and UNC Chapel Hill.

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 14 pilot grants of $2,000 each to SOM Biomedical PhD students. The goal of these grants is to support our students in scientific and educational efforts to bolster their graduate training experiences. These awards will help further research in a broad array of topics including single cell sequencing, changes in the brain due to drug use, and RNA sequencing. It will also help cover costs to attend courses and conferences around the world.

This spring, 18 faculty members in the Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded distinguished professorships. The new distinguished professors will be honored at the annual distinguished professorship event on May 23.    In total, 32 new distinguished professors across Duke University were approved by the Board of Trustees in February.  Distinguished professorships are awarded to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary scholarship in advancing science and improving human health.   

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine have developed a way to make humanized mouse models more accurate.

Duke University, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and ​​​NC​​ State University, has received a three-year, $3 million grant from the Chan​ ​Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to map and manipulate the unseen complexities of biological networks, with a focus on kinases.

In a finding that could help reduce the racial disparity in kidney disease, Duke Health researchers have detailed how two common gene variants among African Americans can cause kidney failure.

Children under age five face an average of six to eight respiratory infections a year. As we age, we develop the ability to ward off more infections, but for the younger population, these respiratory infections are often become serious, even life-threatening. Globally, over 700,000 kids die each year of pneumonia.