Division News

Prudhomme-O'Meara receives supplemental Duke CTSA award

Wendy Prudhomme-O'Meara, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases) and global health, has received a supplemental award through Duke Translational Research. The award will provide supplemental funding for the project "Novel mHealth platform to ensure quality of community-based malaria diagnosis."

The research evaluates an innovative public-private partnership in Kenya using trained community health workers to target malarial medicines to those with confirmed malaria infection.

Philanthropies announce new program to support early-career scientists

Three of the nation’s largest philanthropies – the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation – have announced a new partnership to provide much needed research support to outstanding early-career scientists in the United States.

Through the new Faculty Scholars Program, the philanthropies will invest a total of $148 million in research support over the program’s first five years.

Duke launches Ebola resources website

Given the rapidly changing national and international response to Ebola, Duke University and Duke Medicine have established a centralized information resource to provide ongoing updates to employees, students, patients and other members of the Duke community. The