Recent News
CAGPMers to present poster at American College of Medical Genetics meeting
Susanne Haga, Rachel Myers, Geoff Ginsburg, and colleagues will have a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics in Charlotte, N.C.
Ephraim Tsalik will be a speaker at the upcoming 3rd Annual Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Conference on April 11-12
The Annual Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Conference is the premiere venue for scientists, technologists, and professionals to discuss and present the newest advances in molecular diagnostics testing.
Bringing Precision Health Technology to Duke Students
Susanne Haga and Geoff Ginsburg have been awarded a Duke Collaboratory grant in population health for a campus precision health initiative.
CAGPM student elected to School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Emily Lydon was elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Carolyn Baloh wins poster competition at NHGRI Annual Meeting
Carolyn Baloh won the poster competition for post-doctoral/early faculty at the 2018 NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting.
Chris Woods appointed Chair of Sustainable Development Committee
Chris Woods has been appointed as Chair of the Sustainable Development Committee in the American Society of Microbiology.
Events
Ferroptosis: a regulated cell death nexus linking metabolism, redox biology and disease
April 24, 2018 - 12:30pm
147 Nanaline Duke
New Funding
Deepak Voora and Geoff Ginsburg were awarded an internal grant from the Translating Duke Health Initiative.
Ricardo Henao was awarded a Subcontract through Vigilant Medical.
Susanne Haga was awarded an R25 grant from NIH for an undergraduate summer program for underrepresented minority students.
Alex Limkakeng, along with co-investigators Ephraim Tsalik and Ricardo Henao, was awarded a grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation.
Micah McClain was awarded an R21 grant from NIH.
Featured Publications
A community approach to mortality prediction in sepsis via gene expression analysis
Geoff Ginsburg, Ephraim Tsalik, Ricardo Henao, and Chris Woods are authors on this paper on prognostic models for 30-day mortality from sepsis infection.
A proposed approach to accelerate evidence generation for genomic-based technologies in the context of a learning health system.
Geoff Ginsburg and co-authors from Geisinger, Harvard, and CDC published a paper in Genetics in Medicine proposing a collaborative model approach to accelerate evidence generation for genomic-based technologies.
An Overview of US pharmacogenetic programs
Geoff Ginsburg was part of a team that investigated the US landscape of research programs in PGx implementation, review current advances and clinical applications of PGx, summarize the obstacles that have hindered PGx implementation, and identify the critical knowledge gaps and possible studies needed to help to address them.
Haga and colleagues publish description of new PGx testing newborn program
Susanne Haga and colleagues from Northern Viriginia’s Inova Health System have published an overview of the novel PGx testing program for newborns. This paper was selected as the PharmGKB Curator's Favorite Papers for October 30, 2017.
Joe Lucas and Deepack Voora publish predictive model of statin adherence based on EHR data
Lucas and Voora collaborated with researchers from the US Air Force in their examination of EHR data from the Military Health System on statin adherence and outcomes.
Tsalik, Woods and other Duke faculty publish study on candidate genes for susceptibility to S. aureus infection
Working with collaborators from Korea, Miami, and Cincinnati, the researchers extended their prior work on chromosome 8 of A/J mice with susceptibility to S. aureus infection.
Core Resources
Clinical Genomics Studies Unit
The CGSU provides the infrastructure and operational excellence to support translational research in genome and implementation sciences.
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.