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Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD, is the Lincoln Financial Group Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology and specializes in synaptic physiology research and Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. She highlights the transformative impact of big data, AI, and cell modeling on neuroscience research, emphasizing the potential for advances in regenerative therapies and neural prostheses.

Duke University School of Medicine’s research symposium showcased how discovery science, AI, technology, and translation are driving progress on some of the biggest challenges in biomedical science.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and complex class of genetic diseases caused by defects in a relatively large region of the genome.

Duke University has received $8 million from the Duke Endowment to support the development of interdisciplinary PhD graduate education collaboratives to prepare doctoral students to tackle the most pressing societal problems of our time. Suzanne Barber, dean of the Graduate School and a professor of cell biology, will help implement the new programs.

Daichi Shonai, a PhD student at Duke University, hopes to identify early warning signs of Parkinson’s disease by investigating the early molecular changes within the nerve cells that stop functioning in this brain disorder.

Stefano Di Talia and Amy Gladfelter are among five faculty in the School of Medicine who have been promoted or appointed to the rank of full professor.

 

Two School of Medicine faculty members have been honored with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.

Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute successfully created an HIV vaccine candidate that guides key immune cells along an evolutionary pathway to become broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Akankshi Munjal, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology, is driven by her fascination with watching development happen.