Duke is creating a new health policy center to develop ideas for health reform, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday in a press release.
The Chronicle’s Neelesh Moorthy recently spoke with Nobel laureate Paul Modrich about the award, his work and the importance of basic research.
A Duke University professor was awarded a $5.2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to explore algae biofuel as viable alternative energy source. The Duke-led Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium, comprised of both universities and energy companies, aims to lower the cost of algae oil.
A team of current and former Duke students tackled the gender gap in engineering at the Global Grand Challenges Summit in Beijing last month.
Paul Modrich’s Nobel Prize win is a huge victory not only for him and for Duke, but also for all fields of basic research, administrators and colleagues said.
Paul Modrich, James B. Duke professor of biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday.
In the past two years, students, graduates and faculty at the Pratt School of Engineering have innovated at record rates. In 2015, 89 patent applications were filed and 60 received, compared to 30 patents filed and 42 patents received in 2013—according to a Sept.
Transgender youth and their families have a new resource for furthering their mental and physical well-being.
The three largest universities in the Triangle were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to better facilitate collaboration between nanotechnology students, manufacturers and researchers.
Duke scientists’ recent breakthrough in brain mapping technology has enabled them to make an improved model of a mouse’s brain, which can then be used to help determine the origins of neurological disorders, and improve treatment in humans. Using an innovational approach of diffusion imaging, a team here at Duke succeeded in creating a three dimensional map of the circuitry inside of a mouse’s brain at a resolution 100,000 times greater than that of a clinical MRI scan.
The School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program will celebrate its 50-year heritage and accomplishments Saturday.
Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute is implementing initiatives that focus on using the humanities to improve healthcare. Deborah Jenson, the new Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) director and professor of French, Romance Studies and Global Health is leading efforts to integrate healthcare and humanities.
The national spotlight has again fallen on the anti-vaccine movement after controversial claims from Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson during the second GOP debate. The scientific and medical communities agree, however, that vaccines do not cause autism and are effective tools for public health, said Jeffrey Baker, a pediatrician and director of Duke’s History of Medicine program.
You have heard of the old adage: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But new research could inspire a new saying: “worms a day keeps the doctor away.” Duke scientists are planning clinical trials to investigate whether ingesting helminths, which are intestinal worms, can treat depression and other neurological diseases. Currently, the public is knowledgeable that the community of different types of bacteria living in human bodies, called the microbiome, is important to health.
This weekend, the first Triangle Health Innovation Challenge (ThInC), a health hackathon, brought together a diverse set of individuals to collaborate and propose innovative solutions for the biggest issues in medicine, from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to diabetes. “Our mission was to foster grassroots innovation in healthcare among students and young professionals in the Triangle,” said Steven Doerstling, UNC ‘17, who is a founder of ThInC. ThInC was inspired by Lina Colucci, a Duke Robertson Scholar ‘08, who is now a Ph.D.
Graduate of Duke School of Medicine and now Assistant Professor Damon Tweedy recently published his book, Black Man in a White Coat. In light of the national racial questions and campus events , the book is an interesting reflection on Tweedy's experiences through medical as a black student as well as a larger commentary on the discriminatory "facts" that medical institutions uphold.
Duke scientists have discovered a breakthrough method of delivering cancer drugs that drastically improves their efficiency. This summer, a team led by Ashutosh Chilkoti—chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering—published a study describing the new technique where nanoparticles are modified to package and deliver a common chemotherapy drug called paclitaxel.
Missy Cummings is a professor in the department of mechanical engineering and director of the humans and autonomy lab at Duke.
The Duke Medical School last week announced the launch of a new Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics, hoping to bring together statisticians, bioinformaticists and other quantitative scientists to work on genetic issues. The center, directed by Andrew Allen, a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics, will focus mainly on how genetics and genomics can affect disease.
Researchers at Duke University have paired with collaborators from across the globe in the hopes of bringing the trained eye of a psychiatrist to the lens of an iPad camera through an app designed to screen for autism. The application first displays a series of short videos that are meant to evoke emotional responses in its users.
