Lantos receives ERIC grant to develop teaching program for GIS based research in China
Paul Lantos, MD, medical instructor (General Internal Medicine), has received a $20,000 grant from Duke University's Educational and Research Initiatives in China (ERIC) program. ERIC funding is intended to help faculty develop innovative education and research programs at the Duke Kunshan University campus and other areas in China.
Bartlett recognized for research by N.C. Community AIDS Fund
Congratulations to John Bartlett, MD, for receiving a North Carolina Community AIDS Fund 2016 Red Ribbon Service Award.
Dr. Bartlett was recognized with an award for Innovation in Research. Bartlett is a professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), nursing and global health.
Funding opp: Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
The Hartwell Foundation considers Duke University as one of its Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research in the United States, and has invited Duke to submit nominees for the Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Awards program.
Only investigators nominated by the head of an invited research institution are eligible for consideration for the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.
6 from Medicine honored at SoM Spring Faculty Meeting
Six Department of Medicine faculty were recognized with awards at the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting on May 9.
4 from Medicine receive 2016 ENABLE research funding
Four Department of Medicine faculty were recently awarded Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program research grants from the PDC.
Department selects five for Chair's Research Award, bridge funding
Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, and Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, vice chair for research, have announced the recipients of the 2016 Chair’s Research Award.
The annual award funds junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.
Naggie to serve on DHHS Guidelines Panel for Antiretroviral Use in Adults and Adolescents
Susanna Naggie, MD, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), has been asked to serve on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Guidelines Panel for Antiretroviral Use in Adults and Adolescents with HIV.
4 Medicine faculty among recipients of new collaborative grant program
Four faculty members from the Department of Medicine are among the recipients of a new grant program aimed at fostering interactions between researchers in the School of Medicine and the Duke campus. Eight seed grants were awarded to project teams for "Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences."
The teams from Medicine are:
Gray leads team bringing life-saving rapid flu diagnostics to Mongolia
Greg Gray, MD, MPH, professor of global health, infectious diseases and environmental sciences, set up a remote research outpost in Mongolia to detect the next global infectious disease pandemic.
New translational research: Blood test can tell if antibiotics are needed
A team of infectious disease and genomics faculty in the Department of Medicine has been fine-tuning a test that can determine whether a respiratory illness is caused by infection from a virus or bacteria so that antibiotics can be more precisely prescribed. The research was published in the January 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine.