Division News

Steve Taylor, MD, a medical instructor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, is one of three Duke researchers to receive an International Travel Grant from Duke Global Health Institute to pursue global health collaborations in Kenya. Dr. Taylor will travel to Eldoret, Kenya, and Kigali, Rwanda this summer to pursue collaborations focused on translational studies of malaria. In Eldoret, Kenya, Taylor will build upon existing research to study the molecular pathology of malaria and its interaction with other diseases.

John R. Perfect, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, was one of three School of Medicine faculty awarded an endowed professorship by Duke University last week. [caption id="attachment_11365" align="alignright" width="203"] John R.

Duke officials are closely monitoring the reports of avian flu in China, where Duke has a growing number of faculty, staff and students in places like Shanghai and Kunshan. Cameron Wolfe, MBBS, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), said that the H7N9 strain of influenza is typically only seen in birds, but it has now been identified in a number of people in China.

The research team, led by Barton F. Haynes, M.D., director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, and John Mascola, M.D., acting director of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, have for the first time described the co-evolution of antibodies and virus in a person with HIV whose immune system mounted a broad attack against the pathogen. Findings are published April 3, 2013, in the journal Nature. Click here to read the article in Nature.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., April 5 at 8 a.m.

The Division of Infectious Diseases will host Professor Bruno Hoen, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Tropical Medicine at University Hospital of Besancon in Besancon, France, today at 4 p.m. in Hanes House Room 131 for Grand Rounds. Dr. Hoen will present "Indications and timing of valve surgery in patients with active endocarditis." All are welcome to attend.

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Kenneth E. Sherman, MD, PhD, the Gould Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Digestive Diseases at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, visits ID Case Conference Thurs., Oct. 25 at 4 p.m. in Hanes House 131.