Recent News
Ready, Set, WearDuke
The Enabling Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections team is gearing up for its second year, working to further develop and expand infrastructure for the WearDuke Initiative.
Identifying the Epigenetic Fingerprints of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Faculty member Christopher Woods is a principal investigator in new DARPA project.
Get Involved: Bass Connections Opportunities
Bass Connections is currently offering several opportunities for Duke faculty.
Lori Orlando earns Masters of Management in Clinical Informatics from Duke
On August 23, Lori Orlando, M.D., MHS, added another title to her name: Master of Management in Clinical Informatics.
CAGPM faculty publish three articles in "The Lancet"
CAGPM faculty members Geoff Ginsburg, Lori Orlando and Rebekah Wu co-authored three papers published in The Lancet.
Ginsburg announced as member of the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine Scientific Advisory Board
Brotman Baty Institute (BBI) welcomed several world leaders in genomics and precision medicine to their Scientific Advisory Board, including director Geoff Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
Inagural School of Medicine Research Week
October 14, 2019 - 11:30am
Sixth Floor, Trent Semans Center
Scholars Photo Day
October 18, 2019 - 11:00am
Broadhead Center, Second Floor, Chaplin Family Lounge (Room 247)
1st Annual Symposium on Big Data and Precision Health
October 24, 2019 - 8:30am
Great Hall, Trent Semans Center
Genomic and Precision Medicine Weekly Forum: Gregory Gray, M.D., MPH, FIDSA
October 24, 2019 - 12:00pm
2240 CIEMAS
GCB Academy: Introduction to Scientific Computing for Genomics
October 28, 2019 - 8:30am
127 Bostock
New Funding
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.
Micah McClain received a 4-year Merit Award from the VA to explore the host genomic response to rickettsial infections in human patients and develop novel PCR-based tests that are capable of accurately diagnosing Spotted Fever Group rickettsii and Scrub typhus infections, which will allow for better therapeutic decision making.
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.
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 creates guide for primary care providers: First Responder to Genomic Information
Susanne Haga discusses current and potential approaches to guiding PCP’s to better navigate the unfamiliar terrain of genetic and genomic testing.
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.
Shaw looks at mobile health technologies to enhance diabetes self management
Ryan Shaw along with several colleagues at Duke discuss protocol for a study seeking to expand the use of mobile technologies to generate real-time data to enhance self-management strategies in those with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Tsalik, Henao and Woods develop new way to evaluate patient diagnostic tests
Tsalik, Henao and Woods and colleagues developed Average Weighted Accuracy (AWA), a pragmatic evaluation of diagnostic utility.
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.