Division News

A new study by Duke researchers, including Duke Center for Applied Genomics members Deepak Voora, MD, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, and first author, Rachel Meyers, PhD, explores why aspirin may not work as well as expected against stroke and heart attack and to better understand any differences between low- and high-dose aspirin – one of the most commonly used medications worldwide.

Ricardo Henao, PhD, Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine faculty and assistant professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, collaborating with co-investigators, recently published “Evaluation of an RNAseq-Based Immunogenomic Liquid Biopsy Approach in Early-Stage Prostate Cancer” in Cells.

On the heels of October highlighting breast cancer awareness and entering November when National Family Health History month is recognized, Dr. Ryanne Wu, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine and faculty at the Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine (CAGPM), recently completed a study on the “Development and Clinical Implementation Pilot of an Oncology-specific Risk Assessment tool in Singapore”, funded by the Duke/Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Research Collaboration funding mechanism.

Sponsored Research  Melissa Daubert of Cardiology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Coronary Artery Calcium in the PRagmatic EValuation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid lowering in the Elderly: CAC PREVENTABLE Ancillary Study." Total funding will be $7,892,380.

Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine faculty member, Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD, has received a grant from the Department of Defense to pursue, “Rapid, point-of-care, host gene expression test for presymptomatic viral infection and to distinguish bacterial from viral illness.”

The Duke Division of General Internal Medicine once again had great representation at the Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) this year. While the original plan for CLIC was to be in South Africa, the conference was moved to virtual. The hosts in Stellenbosch, South Africa, still grounded the conference in place and principles, sharing the concept of “Ubuntu”, which translates as, “a person is a person through other persons”.

Congratulations to David Edelman, MD, and Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, as well as the entire VA HSR&D Program for their recently approved renewal award for the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) as a site for the Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research and Development!

Cameron Miller, PhD, recently joined CAGPM as a Biostatistician III. To get to know Dr. Miller a little more, we asked him the following questions:

Micah McClain, MD, PhD, has received an award from Biomeme Inc.

Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent promotion in the Department of Medicine. The following changes were approved during the August 20, 2021, and September 24, 2021, Board of Trustees meetings.