Duke Receives $20 million in Federal Research Grants
Separate awards will advance genomic medicine and breast cancer research
In separate awards from the National Institutes of Health, Duke University School of Medicine researchers will advance genomic medicine initiatives and develop a model for how breast cancer tumors begin and grow.
The genome studies include two grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute, which is part of NIH, that will total about $9 million over five years.
Pfizer-NCBiotech Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gene Therapy Awarded to Duke Surgery Fellow
Congratulations to Yuting P. Chiang, MD, General Surgery Research Fellow, and mentor Dawn E. Bowles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences, on receiving the Pfizer-NCBiotech Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gene Therapy (Pfizer-GTF). Their proposal, entitled Evolving Inside the Box: A Novel Approach to Generate AAV Vector for Cardiac Gene Therapy Applications, will be funded in full.
NIH Awards $86 Million to Improve Genome Editing Techniques
Photo: An illustration depicts a genome editing tool bound to a DNA helix. New genome editing tools can substitute single “letters” in the DNA code without changing the surrounding DNA structure. (Credit: XVIVO Photo)
Increasing Community Awareness of Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Photo: Dara Schoffner (Women of Spirit), Margie Scott (Cancer Survivor Support Ministry), Gayathri Devi (Duke), and Gwendolyn Villines (Women of Spirit)
Dr. Gayathri Devi Presents at International Inflammatory Breast Cancer Meeting
Gayathri R. Devi, PhD, Associate Professor in Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences, was a keynote speaker at the International Inflammatory Breast Cancer Meeting in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Devi is the Program Director for the Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer. The title of her talk was "Multi-Scale Modeling of the Unique Progression of Inflammatory Breast Cancer."
N.C. Residents Living Near Large Hog Farms Have Elevated Disease, Death Risks
While the cause is not definitive, the health risks serve as a call for research and action
North Carolinians who live near large hog farms -- known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs -- have higher death rates from a variety of causes than comparable state residents who live further away from such facilities.
Duke Researchers Find Safer, Reversible Method of Preventing Blood Clots During Bypass Surgery
In a research study published in Nature Biotechnology, Duke researchers report that they have found a safer way to prevent blood clotting, and reverse the effects, in patients undergoing surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
Three Duke Researchers Present Recent Findings
Congratulations to three Duke Surgery researchers chosen to present abstracts at recent and upcoming events. All the researchers work on a team directed by Dawn Bowles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences.
Duke Surgery Welcomes New Director of Gene Therapy
We are pleased to announce that Aravind Asokan, PhD, will join the Department of Surgery as the new Director of Gene Therapy in the Division of Surgical Sciences with a secondary appointment in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology. Dr. Asokan comes to Duke from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where he served as Associate Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Undergraduate Students in the Cell Death Laboratory Receive Honors
Photo: Cell Death Laboratory members Samantha Bouchal, Pranalee Patel, and Jennifer McMains