Like a lot of alumni, David N. Howell, learned from a number of influential mentors when he was a student and trainee at Duke. Unlike most, he married his mentor, Sara E. Miller, and together they made a substantial gift to create The Rollie Assistant/Associate Professorship of Correlative Pathology.

National cancer databases provide a ton of valuable information for researchers, but institutional data is often more granular, including details such as specific chemotherapy regimens, radiation doses, treatment durations, and recurrence rates. The Duke Breast Database (DB2), a big data initiative, is invaluable for health researchers like Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, assistant professor of surgery and the principal investigator for the database.

Three leading researchers team up to explore new targets in the search for the origins of Parkinson’s disease.

Grace Terrell, MD’89, HS’89-’90, uses precision medicine technology to improve the odds for patients in search of diagnoses.

Heather Whitson, MD, HS’01-’04, takes the reins at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development as Harvey Cohen, MD, HS’65-’67, ’69-’71, steps down after almost four decades.

In her new position as principal deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Amy Abernethy, MD’94, HS’94-’01, PhD, is working to use data and precision medicine to develop more efficient ways to deliver personalized care.

A one-dollar bill started it all. In 2011, John and Andrea Pitera had just opened Mojo’s on the Harbor. Brooke Williams, their very first customer, paid in cash and signed their first dollar for good luck. He had no idea that he was starting a trend that would lead to thousands of dollars for cancer research.

Oxford University epidemiologist Richard Peto was puzzled by a paradox: If cancer is a function of individual cells going haywire, wouldn’t an organism with a lot more cells, say a whale, have a greater chance of getting cancer than a human or a mouse?

Breast cancer survivor Monica Crooks is coming up on 5 years cancer free, and she wants donors to the Duke Cancer Institute know that she couldn't have done it without them!

Duke’s lung transplant team brought Gavin Maitland back from the brink of death. Now he’s raising money to help the program save more lives.