Duke’s ninth annual Energy Week brought together students, faculty and industry leaders to explore the pressing challenges and opportunities in the energy landscape.
The collaboration resulted in $75,000 awards to four pilot projects, each led by faculty from both schools with an expected timeline of 18 months.
The project — in collaboration with Erasmus University in the Netherlands — is supported by a recent $7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers contract.
The study, conducted in the Gladfelter Lab in the Duke School of Medicine, takes advantage of the structural flexibility of intrinsically disordered proteins, explaining a possible mechanism of resilience to disease and climate-change-induced temperature change.
