Division News

The NIH invites Exploratory/Developmental (R21) applications from U.S.-funded institutions with an Indian institution partner to establish Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) to advance science and technology important to understanding, preventing, and treating diabetes and its complications. 

The NIH is seeking Research Project Grant (R01) applications develop behavioral interventions for patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions. Specifically, this FOA will support primary-care research using a multi-disease care management approach to improve health outcomes for individuals with three or more chronic health conditions. Read more.

The NIH is funding behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U.S. population.

The Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral Sciences, and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07) will support the career development of junior investigators with research or health professional doctoral degrees who want to become academic researchers in cancer prevention, cancer control, or the behavioral or population sciences. 

Dr. Bruce Peyser, recently co-authored a high-profile article in the journal Academic Medicine. Along with other primary care leaders and educators at Duke, Peyser discusses  the Primary Care Leadership Track at Duke as a way to educate and engage medical students in community health initiatives and research.

This week's faculty spotlight shines on Dr. Laura M. Beskow, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Medicine and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division of General Internal Medicine? I have been at Duke for nearly 8 years, but I just joined the Division in the last year.

The National Conference on Engaging Patients, Families and Communities in all Phases of Translational Research to Improve Health will be held from August 21-22 in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, or to register, click here. 

The American Cancer Society is offering grants to established investigators in mid-career who have made seminal contributions that have changed the direction of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy or epidemiological cancer research.

Northwestern University will hold a free webinar, "Advances in Person-Centered Outcome Measurement," from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has issued a FOA to support research and development of devices, software, or technology that will optimize data collection for NIDDK clinical studies. Read more.