Division News

10 faculty from the Department of Medicine have been selected for the School of Medicine's LEADER program. 

Department of Medicine researchers Diego Bohórquez PhD and Opeyemi Olabisi MD, PhD, have been given two of the NIH Director’s “New Innovator,” awards, which are for high-risk/high-reward work being done by early-stage investigators. The award provides $1.5 million for a five-year project. The Duke scholars are among just 93 “highly creative scientists” nationwide to receive the grants, which fund innovative and impactful research.

Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital who investigates the use of patient-stem cell-derived podocytes as tools for uncovering disease mechanisms of APOL1 nephropathy, will join the Duke Division of Nephrology and the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute later this year.

Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, a nephrology fellow, will receive The Mario Family Foundation Award, which supports junior investigators in training to make the transition to become independent scientists and planning for their first extra-mural funding.

​Four faculty from the Department of Medicine have been newly selected for leadership roles/course directorships in the Medical School for the next academic year.

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, instructor of medicine (Nephrology) and pathology, will present her research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, May 31, 2019 at 12 p.m. in Duke Hospital Room 2002.

The Department of Medicine has awarded the 2019 Chair's Research Award to four junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.

​Duke University Pratt School of Engineering announced that Samira Musah, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology) and biomedical engineering, has received the 2019 Early Investigator Travel Award from the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, fellow in the Division of Nephrology, has been elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society for Spring 2019.

Two faculty from the Department of Medicine have received 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), and Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and pharmacology and cancer biology, are among 35 "outstanding physician-scientists" nationally to be recognized.