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It's that time of year again to get your flu vaccination. Employees required to be vaccinated must be compliant by 12:01 a.m. on November 1, 2017.

The Division of General Internal Medicine hosted a wine and cheese event that included a poster session and time to socialize.

The Division of General Internal Medicine announces the 2nd annual GIM Excellence Award winners.

The photograph of blue, pink and neon-green globes that Christina Barkauskas, MD, keeps on her desk inside the Nanaline Duke Research Building looks like a string of glowing holiday lights. That is, until she decodes it.

Produced with a confocal microscope, the image is evidence of new insight into how some lung tissue repairs itself. It captures type 2 epithelial cells within alveoli functioning like stem or progenitor cells by giving rise to type 1 epithelial cells, which contribute to tissue repair.  

For Dr. Barkauskas, this is not knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s data needed to better serve  patients with often-lethal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr. Susanne Haga of the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM) and Dr. Greg Wray of the Center for Genomic and Computation Biology (GCB) were awarded an NIH R25 for an undergraduate summer program for underrepresented minority students. The “Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine” is supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute.

On Tues., Sept. 19, the Department of Medicine hosted a welcome event for new faculty at the Washington Duke Inn.

To better understand blood cancers, Sandeep Davé, MD, MBA, MS, hunts down variation in the DNA sequences important to those cancers. One international project he launched is deploying comparative genetics to better classify the more than 100 blood cancers.

But the research never stops there.

Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy), will present her research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Sept. 18, 2017.

As a young researcher, Svati Shah expected that genomic studies would reveal vital insights into the roots of disease. When they did not, the cardiologist widened her net to compare many more molecular components at once. The result is a growing understanding of the cellular profile of disease more specific than tales told by static DNA.