Srilakshmi Venkatesan is a Trinity first-year and a staff reporter for the news department.
Duke researchers recently found that oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) contain large levels of artificial sweeteners that significantly enhance their appeal and consumption rates, especially among young people.
Meriwether’s long and dynamic career featured civil rights activism, public health leadership and investment in underserved communities at home and abroad.
A study published in December by Duke professor Rohit Singh and his team proposes a new computational model called antibody mutagenesis-augmented processing that can predict antibody structures and binding strengths based on amino acid sequences.
The company will use the funding to advance clinical trials for Tune-401, the epigenetic silencing drug for treating chronic Hepatitis B — a viral infection that damages the liver and affects millions globally.
Daubechies is one of 14 National Medal of Science honorees this year, joining the ranks of 515 recipients throughout the award’s history. She is just the second to come from Duke — the first being Robert Lefkowitz, who received the honor in 2008 and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012.
Duke Health researchers found a relationship between immune response and neurological behavior after studying mice with a specific gene mutation, which exhibited signs of ADHD in response to an antiviral mechanism.
The new initiative aims to integrate ethics into engineering curriculums, with the goal of creating better engineers and people. By offering workshops, consultations and reading groups, Character Forward helps faculty integrate “character education” into their classrooms.
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 2024 Innovator Award will cover four years of Ramanujam and her team’s work to reduce the burdens of cancer treatments on patients, particularly ones who do not live near a hospital.
CFOs seemed predominantly optimistic about the financial outlook for their own companies and the U.S. economy as a whole. Concerns about inflation have decreased since the Q2 survey.
