Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

Priya Kishnani received one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors, the North Carolina Award, on November 15 for her contributions to science.

The microbes that help break down food actually tell the gut how to do its job better.

Duke researchers are gaining a better understanding of how nutrient deprivation affects development.

New tool provides a framework to identify human genetic determinants of infectious disease outcomes

Experts at Duke Health were among a multi-national team involved in treating a fetus for infantile-onset Pompe disease using an enzyme replacement therapy – a first in the world.

In the battle of the sexes, women beat men in their ability to recover from kidney injury, but the reasons are not well understood.

The Duke Center for Combinatorial Gene Regulation (CCGR), an NHGRI Center of Excellence in Genome Sciences (CEGS), hosted the annual CEGS meeting October 18-20.

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 8 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 into diseases like breast cancer, glioblastoma, meningitis, and more. Funds will also go towards researching topics like gene and chromatin regulation and studying organoid models.

Bruce Donald and colleagues developed RESISTOR, an algorithm that uses protein structure-based computational design to predict how mutations in an enzyme will affect a drug’s efficacy. This technology could provide drug designers with insights to design better, more durable, proactive drugs.

Lawrence David was among 25 recipients awarded 2022 Science Diversity Leadership Awards from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.