Study looks at in-home stem cell treatment
Nelson Chao, MD, MBA, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, was feat
1/14/16: School of Medicine's K Day, Career Development Award preparation opportunity
The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Mentoring will host K Day on Thur., Jan. 14, 2016.
2 from Medicine receive Research Staff Appreciation Awards
Two research staff members from the Department of Medicine have received a School of Medicine “Research Staff Appreciation Award,” in recognition of their exemplary support in the conduc
John Perfect on his research: It went fungal
Dr. John Perfect estimates a million cases of cryptococcal disease per year, with 600,000 deaths, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS causes widespread immunosuppression. People can develop respiratory symptoms, like pneumonia; if the pathogen crosses the blood-brain barrier, the infection progresses to terrible, long-lasting headaches and sometimes fever. There can even be other neurological signs; cryptococcus can actually cause dementia. The problem is, even though we understand that Cryptococcal disease occurs in the immunosuppressed, we don’t know quite how the fungus sneaks through the blood-brain barrier.
Meet your chief resident: Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA
A few months into her role as chief resident of internal medicine at Duke University Hospital, Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, is foc