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The Drug Guy Changes Course
Breast cancer researcher Donald McDonnell, PhD, met his wife, Mary, in Maine for a week of vacation. Sitting at a secluded inn on Anne’s Point, McDon...
Fighting on Both Sides of Cancer Care
For 27 years, Heather Paradis, a 1995 graduate of Duke University’s Master of Science in Nursing Program, cared for cancer patients at Duke University...
A Constant Presence
In 2016, Duke employee Brandy Chieco was a new mom with a three-month-old baby boy when her own mom, Brenda Brooks, was diagnosed with synovial...
About Time
As the COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on health disparities, efforts to find new ways to reduce them get a boost.
A Detour Into Melanoma
Postdoctoral Fellow Binita Chakraborty, PhD was intrigued: in published analyses of large numbers of patients with melanoma (skin cancer) treated with...
A Long Struggle
Eric Dziuban, MD’07 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s country director for the southwest African nation of Namibia, was enjoying a...
Turning a Terrifying Ordeal into an Opportunity to Help
Before Claire Aldridge, PhD’96, and her husband, Matt Burnside, took their daughter on a long-planned spring break trip to New York City, she checked...