Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

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.

How superbugs use mirror images to create antibiotic resistance

Terrie Moffitt has received the title Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, commonly known as the MBE. She conducts longitudinal studies to research human health and behavior.

The Duke Microbiome Center awarded the 2023 DMC Diversity Matters Awards to Jessica Portillo and Dr. Sweta Patel.

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A common powerful mutation found in melanoma can push heart muscle cells to multiply in laboratory models of heart tissue