Division News

New research continues to be explored through the growing progress in genome sequences but concurrently these advances have produced a diversity of new issues to be addressed.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) held its first in-person gathering since the onset of COVID-19. The annual symposium took place in San Diego, CA on October 30 through November 4, 2021.

We are pleased to announce the speaker line up for the 2022 Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine Forum Series taking place this upcoming winter and spring!

Congratulations to Drs. Eric Chu and Zachary Hager for their promotions to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective November 1, 2021.

Congratulations to five General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards received an award from International Business Machines for a project entitled "Protective for Whom: Centering Black Infant and Maternal Health in Understanding Social Determinants." Total funding will be $85,000.

Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI, director of the precision medicine program in the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, spoke at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine 2021 Genomics & Adoption Symposium today.

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, a professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering, and a professor in School of Nursing, will leave Duke to assume the role of Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program, effective January 2022. In this role, Dr. Ginsburg will help direct the national scientific research agenda to improve health and accelerate research using precision medicine.

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.

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.