Division News

CAGPM and the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) have partnered with North Carolina Central University (NCCU) for the Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine, supported by an R25 grant by the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH.

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to three of our faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine (GIM)!

Peer reviewer volunteers are needed to review Clinical Vignettes, Innovations in Healthcare Delivery, 

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.”

Jennifer Doudna, PhD, professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading figure in the CRISPR revolution.

Sutoidem Moses Akpanudo, MBBS, PhD, known as "Suto" to his colleagues, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in our division and is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Learn more about Dr. Akpanudo in our interview below. 

What brought you to Duke?
I came to Duke hospital Medicine for the opportunity to engage in research as an academic hospitalist. I was also drawn to the area by the family friendly environment of the Research Triangle area

Dr. Lori Orlando, Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), has been awarded $3.8 million in funding for a research grant (R01) titled “Deploying a genomic-medicine risk assessment model for diverse primary care populations and settings” from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.