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At Duke Health, we are uniting a remarkable team of people fearlessly taking on health care’s biggest challenges. We invite you to join us. Together, we will push the boundaries of what is possible. Together, we will achieve extraordinary outcomes and transform the world of medicine.

Your support is the catalyst for groundbreaking medical research, innovations in patient care, and tomorrow’s health care leaders. Your generosity today will shape the health care of tomorrow. Your donation is not just a gift; it is an investment in a healthier, brighter future for all.

The Duke Difference

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We Are Outrageously Ambitious

We aim high, equipping leaders to transform the field and set new standards for treating diseases.

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We Win as a Team

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. When we win, we win as a team.

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We Always Look for Yes

We relentlessly seek solutions, overcome obstacles, and turn possibilities into realities.

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We Get Things Done

We don’t just dream great things: we live to do the work it takes to achieve them.

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Why We're MADE FOR THIS

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10 groundbreaking advances that grew out of HIV research
A new Nature Medicine paper highlights how 40 years of HIV research reshaped far more than the fight against one virus. What began as an urgent global health response helped fuel breakthroughs that now power treatments for cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and even COVID-19 — thanks to sustained U.S. investment and collaboration across universities, industry, and government.
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How to Heal a Broken Heart

Nenad Bursac, PhD, is growing beating human heart tissue in the lab to test a gene therapy that repairs heart tissue damaged from heart attacks.

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Quick Learner: What is The Life Cycle of a Biomedical Research Grant
Federal funding has provided crucial support for biomedical research at American universities for decades, fueling the innovation and discovery necessary to solve the biggest health challenges. This explainer video describes how research saves lives and how the process of research funding works.
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Drones Now Deliver AEDs During Real 911 Calls in First-of-Its-Kind U.S. Study
Monique Starks, MD, associate professor of medicine, is leading the nation's first clinical trial of an innovative approach to saving more people who suffer cardiac arrest by delivering automated external defibrillators (AEDs) by drone. Drones carrying AEDs are being dispatched during real 911 calls in Forsyth County, North Carolina, to see if drones can deliver AEDs to patients faster than traditional emergency services.
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A Surgeon Shaped by Service
After years reconstructing the faces of injured service members, Air Force veteran David Powers, MD, brings that same precision and compassion to patients recovering from gunshots, accidents, and cancer.
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New Understanding of A Deadly Cancer
In a study published in Nature, Duke researchers led by Trudy Oliver, PhD, reshape understanding of how small cell lung cancer begins, opening the door to developing therapies that could prevent this aggressive disease.
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Engineering Hope
Duke's Neuromodulation and Stroke Recovery Lab, led by Wayne Feng, MD, focuses on harnessing non-invasive brain stimulation tools as potential treatment options for post-stroke complications.
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