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Alumni Making a Difference: William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS...
William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS’73-’77, is the McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University.
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New Gift Continues Work to Advance Understanding and...
Duke has received a new $1.25 million, five-year gift from an anonymous family that builds on their previous support for the Center for Misophonia and...
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Planned Gift of Estate Reflects Couple's Deep Commitment to...
Krista Patterson and Jonathan Wigser have made a planned gift commitment of their estate to Duke Children's, Duke Cancer Institute, School of Medicine...
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DCI 50th Anniversary Raises More than $86M
In honor of DCI's 50th anniversary, our amazing donors helped us raise more than $86 million for cancer research and care.
![Felicia Pagliuca and Joseph Heitman holding a framed cover of Molecular Biology of the Cell Journa.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_archive_850_x_560/public/2023-10/hagliuca%20_heitman.png?itok=QwNOaCUj)
Felicia Pagliuca Follows Her Fascination
When Felicia Pagliuca arrived at Duke as a first-year undergraduate student from Asheville, she was only 16, but she was already fascinated by biology...
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A Horse Show, and So Much More
'Jump for the Children' celebrates 40 years of incredible support for Duke Children's.
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A Window into the Infant Brain
In 2008, Cynthia Toth, MD, was an accomplished ophthalmologist, retinal surgeon, and clinician-scientist. She had been involved since the 1990s in the...