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Meet the School of Medicine’s 2024 Distinguished Professors
This spring, 18 faculty members in the Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded distinguished professorships.
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Duke’s Organ Transplant Program: Out With the Old, In With...
Excellence and innovation drive Duke’s organ transplant program.
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First Presidential Distinguished Chair Named in Honor of...
The anonymous donor who established Chair said the gift was intended to support superb science and to honor the Washingtons.
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The Mysterious Case of the $11 Million Benefactor
Drs. Armstrong and Newgard, have devised an innovative, community-based effort focused on children’s health and nutrition to fulfill her wish.
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Why Some Cancers Become Resistant to Therapy
David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD, is leading a Duke Cancer Institute study on cancer biology and radiation response. By understanding how cancers develop, how...
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Anru Zhang, PhD: Using Data Science to Improve Patient Care
Anru Zhang, PhD, hopes to give physicians another tool to treat disease and improve health – by turning patients’ electronic medical records into a...
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Dissecting Disparities in Cancer Outcomes
Race, and how people are treated differently because of it, leads to major differences in health outcomes for cancer and other diseases. Tomi...