Division News

A event to honor J. Brice Weinberg, MD, recipient of the prestigious Williams S. Middleton Award for outstanding achievement in biomedical or behavioral research (read previous post), will be held Mon., June 20, 2011 in the VA Medical Center Bldg. 16, Room 58. Dr. Weinberg will make a presentation from 10:30am – 11am, followed by a reception until 12:30pm.  

Marilyn Telen, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology, recently learned that the NIH had renewed Duke's T-32 grant, for which she is program director. That grant supports both Internal Medicine Hematology and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology research fellows (total of six per year) working in hematology, bone marrow transplant, and transfusion medicine, as well as one PhD post-doctoral trainee in hemoglobinopathies research. This renewal is for years 36-40 of the grant, starting July 1, 2011.

J. Brice Weinberg, MD, professor of medicine (Hematology) and staff physician in hematology-oncology at the Durham VA Medical Center, will be awarded the prestigious William S. Middleton Award by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in a Washington ceremony on May 4, 2011. Learn more here.

Marilyn Telen, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology, is in Russia September through November on a Fulbright fellowship. While she's there, she's chronicling her travels and explorations on the blog, MD on the road.