News & Recognition

Congratulations to three members of the Division of Emergency Medicine for receiving grants from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Samuel Francis, MD , Assistant Professor of Surgery, is the first Duke faculty to receive a career development award from the SAEM. He will receive a...Read more

A jagged little protein appears to be a key to how cancer stem cells differentiate and enable metastasis, according to researchers at Duke Cancer Institute and Rice University. Rice scientists who have formed several theories on how cancer grows and spreads connected the dots for a more complete picture of tumor mechanics. At the center, they found JAG1, a ligand or small protein, that interacts with a signaling pathway critical to regulating the fate of cells.Read more

Please join the department in congratulating Laura Horst Rosenberger, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology, whose abstract has been accepted by the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) for presentation at the 72nd Annual Cancer Symposium. Dr. Rosenberger will...Read more

Onye Emmanuel Akwari, MD, FACS, FRCS(C), Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences, will receive the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award from the Samuel DuBois Cook Society at Duke University on February 19, 2019 at the society’s annual dinner. Dr. Akwari trained at the Mayo Clinic...Read more

Duke Surgery researchers are bridging the gap between basic research and clinical application, moving gene therapy from the bench to the bedside Dawn Bowles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery Carmelo Milano, MD, Professor of Surgery Muath Bishawi, MD, MPH, Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Gene...Read more

Three faculty members from the Duke Department of Surgery have been named among the most highly cited researchers of 2018 in a recent report from Clarivate Analytics. This year, the report recognized over 6,000 researchers as having the top 1% of citations in Web of Science. Highly cited articles...Read more

Congratulations to Leila Mureebe, MD, MPH , Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, who received a grant from Duke MEDx for her pilot project, “Novel Implantable Oxygen Sensors to Predict Healing of Amputations for Rapid Rehabilitation and Mobility.”...Read more