Recent News
A Crystal Ball For the Decade Ahead
From robots in the home to advanced medicine via an app, Duke faculty offer ideas for the world of 2030. Geoff Ginsburg gave his insights on what he thinks precision medicine will look like in a decade.
Deepak Voora to Present at PMWC 2020
CAGPM faculty member Deepak Voora will present at the 2020 Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) in Silicon Valley.
Bacterial, Viral, or Neither? Host Response Test Has Answers
Predigen, a Duke spin-out company, is putting the finishing touches on a host response bacterial-viral test entering the final leg of the Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge.
Ginsburg to Co-Host Precision Medicine Leaders' Summit
Geoff Ginsburg will co-host the North Carolina Precision Medicine Leaders' Summit on April 30, 2020.
Enabling Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections team renewed
The Enabling Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections project team has been renewed for the 2020-2021 academic year.
WearDuke App-reciates OIT
December 11 is National App Day – a day to celebrate the apps on our smart phones we just can’t live without. With the help of Duke's OIT, some first-year Duke students added a new app to their daily line-up this semester: the WearDuke app.
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
Beyond a Million Genomes: From Discovery to Precision Health
January 21, 2020 - 4:00pm
Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Precision Medicine World Conference
January 21, 2020 - 6:00pm
Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley, CA
From Bench to Bedside in Neurogenomic
January 22, 2020 - 7:30pm
Workshop on Reproducible Research with Git, Github, R, and RStudio
January 23, 2020 - 9:00am
Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Room 4067
New Funding
Lori Orlando, along with a team at Vanderbilt, was awarded a NIH Moonshot grant focused on boosting hereditary cancer identification. The team will use MeTree to collect and analyze family health history.
The Enabling Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections team, led by Susanne Haga has been renewed for the 2019-2020 school year.
A new Bass Connections project, the Smart Toilet: A disruptive technology to improve health and wellness, led by Geoff Ginsburg, has been funded for the 2019-2020 school year.
Ephraim Tsalik is one of five finalists for the Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge through NIH. He will receive a grant to further develop his prototype and supply it for testing to two CLIA-certified independent laboratories.
Seen & Heard
Doraiswamy Hosts George Church at Genomic and Precision Medicine Forum
CAGPM affiliated faculty member Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., hosted George Church, Ph.D., at the Genomic and Precision Medicine Weekly Forum.
Featured Publications
CAGPMers discuss importance of family health history
CAGPM faculty published a paper in The Lancet discussing family health history and how it is underused for actionable risk assessment in patients.
CAGPMers validate host response test to distinguish bacterial and viral respiratory infection
CAGPM faculty and staff members validate a microarray-derived host response signature and explore performance in microbiology-negative and coinfection cases.
Ginsburg evaluates the opportunities, resources, and techniques for implementing genomics in clinical care
Geoff Ginsburg and team review the major technologies used in genomic medicine, discuss approaches to interpret genomic sequence variants, identify publicly available tools for genomic test interpretation, and address barriers to using genomic information in routine practice.
Haga discusses pharmacogenomic testing in pedatrics
In a new review, Susanne Haga provides background on the use of PGx testing in children as well as mothers and discusses the challenges, benefits, and the ethical, legal and social implications of providing PGx testing to children.
Haga, Myers and Orlando assess awareness of family health history (FHH) in young adults
Susanne Haga, Rachel Myers and Lori Orlando assessed young adults' attitudes and knowledge about FHH to understand the barriers to FHH-based risk assessment in young adults. The team also developed and evaluated educational resources designed specifically for young adults.
Lori Orlando and team build evidence and measure clinical outcomes for genomic medicine
Orlando was co-author of a paper focusing on the international efforts to build evidence for the optimal return of disease risk genetic variants and use of this data within routine clinical care.
Core Resources
Diagnostics Development Laboratory
The laboratory brings together expertise in molecular microbiology with genome sciences to develop next-generation diagnostic tests.
BioBank
We support biobanking activities including IRB, sample collection, processing, storage, bar-coded chain of custody and e-inventory management.
Data Science and Analytics
We provide support for data management and integration, informatics, and statistical analyses on complex ‘-omics’ and clinical datasets.