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1 month ago | 
medschool.duke.edu
The Duke University School of Medicine has announced the 2025 Michelle P. Winn Awards honoring individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to inclusive excellence over the past year.
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1 month ago | 
medschool.duke.edu
The Duke University School of Medicine is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Staff Awards. These awards recognize staff members who have gone above and beyond in their roles, demonstrating exceptional professionalism, dedication, and passion for their work. Each honoree has made a profound impact on their teams and the broader Duke community. Dean’s Excellence Staff Award Alyssa Platt
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1 month ago | 
medschool.duke.edu | Angela Spivey
A new “atlas” developed by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the University of Pittsburgh will increase precision in measuring changes in brain structure and make it easier to share results for scientists working to understand neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
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2 months ago | 
medschool.duke.edu | Angela Spivey
In August 2024, Duke University School of Medicine computational biologist Rohit Singh, PhD, posted on the social media platform X, “Introducing Raygun, a new approach to protein design.”He was talking about an artificial intelligence tool his team created to help biologists “shrink” or “expand” existing proteins. The X post got nearly 200,000 views and nearly 1,000 likes.
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2 months ago | 
medschool.duke.edu | Angela Spivey
Understanding and treating brain disorders such as tremor, imbalance, and speech impairments requires deep knowledge of the cerebellum, a part of the brain that’s crucial for making accurate movements. Scientists have long been able to eavesdrop on and record the electrical signals transmitted by neurons (brain cells) in the cerebellum, allowing them to observe the signals entering and exiting this region.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Angela Spivey
In patients with type 2 diabetes, two types of bariatric surgery for weight loss may be effective for reducing long-term health care costs, a study from Duke University School of Medicine and Kaiser Permanente has found. The study, published January 27 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, found that patients who underwent either Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy experienced significant decreases in overall health care costs afterward.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Mary-Russell Roberson
Using New Technologies to Understand the BrainNicole Calakos, MD, PhD, is the Lincoln Financial Group Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology. She specializes in synaptic physiology research and Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. She said the proximity and collegiality of so many talented researchers and physicians at Duke creates a fertile field for research.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Sarah Avery
The only way to ascend a mountain is by putting one foot ahead of the other, one step and then another, over and again. That tenacity took Shelley Hwang, MD, to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2021, the highest mountain in Africa. It’s also led her to the pinnacle of a research quest that began decades ago as a daunting challenge.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll
More than half of patients with heart disease are not hitting cholesterol targets, leaving them at greater risk for heart attack and strokes, according to a new study by Duke University School of Medicine. About 25% of the U.S. population has high cholesterol, which contributes to 3.2 million deaths a year.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll |Levi Gadye
Our noses can effortlessly distinguish the aroma of coffee from the tang of gasoline, yet how they do it has long been a mystery. In a study that appears Oct. 30 in Nature, scientists at Duke University School of Medicine, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and City of Hope provide a glimpse into the complex mechanics that enable the nose to decode an astonishing range of odors with precision.