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The wintry weather Durham faced earlier this week did not prevent a significant turnout for the first Town Hall for Duke Palliative Care Services.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is accepting applications for its Collaborative Research Travel Grants (CRTG) for biomedical researchers. The grant provides up to $15,000 for domestic or international travel to visit labs at other institutions to learn new research techniques, or to begin or continue research collaboration. Applications are due on Feb. 1, 2017. 

Don't forget: The Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in HIV is accepting applications for its current funding cycle. The HIV program's mission is to support innovative scientific research that will advance knowledge in the field of HIV and provide support for research career development. The deadline for online application submission is midnight, EST, Fri. Jan. 13, 2017.

Diego Bohórquez, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Gastroenterology), has been selected as a 2017 TED Fellow.

Don't forget: The MEDx Biomedical Research Award will provide funds of up to $50,000 for novel pilot projects that investigate a basic biomedical question or for the development of tools or technologies that enable biomedical discovery. The pilot projects must be collaborations between faculty members in the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Application submission deadline is Jan. 19, 2017.

Don't forget: The Chancellor’s Discovery Program is accepting applications.  This unique program is intended to fuel new opportunities for innovative research projects at Duke Health that are focused on new ideas and discovery. The Discovery Program will fund up to five one-year awards of $75,000 in 2017. The deadline for applications is Jan. 20, 2017.

The following faculty received funding awards in December 2016.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 9, 2017.

Already the newest systematic review from the Durham VA Evidence Synthesis Program boasts an Altmetrics “attention score” of 140 (as of 1/8/17). Amongst several Duke authors for this publication, two represent DGIM: Dr. Clarissa Diamantidis and senior author, Dr. John Williams.

Jamy Ard, MD, will return to Duke University on Jan. 13, 2017 as the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Speaker at Medicine Grand Rounds. Dr. Ard is a professor of medicine and epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine and co-director of the Weight Management Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health. He attended Duke University School of Medicine and completed residency in internal medicine at Duke, serving as chief resident from 2001-2002.

Dr. Ard will present "A patient with obesity walks into your clinic: Designing effective obesity treatments for key populations." Continue reading for more on his research and his time at Duke.