It was another hectic day at the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Duke University Hospital. Chris Fry, RN, BSN, was taking care of a 65-year-old man who had received a heart transplant the day before.

Did you know that one in five new cancers is caused by infection? Meira Epplein, PhD, a co-leader for Duke Cancer Institute’s Cancer Control and Population Sciences Research Program, is working to get the word out about testing and treatment for a common stomach bacterium called h pylori.

Learn why Paul Rudershausen is cycling across North America to raise funds for the research of Jason Somarelli, PhD, at Duke Cancer Institute. Somarelli studies the genes that promote cancer spread in both humans and dogs.

Outside, it is a Friday afternoon in early March: cold, bright, windy. Inside- in a small room on the first floor of the Duke Clinic – it is after dinner and Count Ilyick Rostov has downed another ryumka of vodka in the bar of Moscow’s Hotel Metropol.