Recent News
Uncovering the Unknowns to COVID-19 Testing
A new test developed by Ephraim Tsalik and team may improve COVID-19 diagnosis.
2020 CAGPM Career Service Awardees
Five CAGPMers are being recognized for the annual Career Service Awards.
Ryanne Wu Guest Editor for Special Issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine
Ryanne Wu will serve as guest editor for the upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine focusing on personalized medicine in primary care.
Lori Orlando Publishes Book On Genomics and Family Health History
Associate Director of CAGPM Lori Orlando, M.D., just added a new title to her biography: book author.
The new normal: Nurses as innovators
Nurses, including our own Ryan Shaw, are leading the way to healthcare's future.
Duke's MUDROCK Study launches COVID-19 research in Cabarrus County
New study co-led by Chris Woods will follow and test hundreds of volunteers as part of a state effort to monitor disease.
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
GCB Academy: Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics and Metabolomics Part II
July 15, 2020 - 1:00pm
Zoom (link will be emailed to registrants)
GCB Academy: Introduction to DNA Sequencing Technology Part II
July 15, 2020 - 3:00pm
Zoom (link will be emailed to registrants)
GCB Academy: Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics and Metabolomics Part III
July 22, 2020 - 1:00pm
Zoom (link will be emailed to registrants)
GCB Academy: Introduction to DNA Sequencing Technology Part III
July 22, 2020 - 3:00pm
Zoom (link will be emailed to registrants)
New Funding
Geoffrey Ginsburg has received a sub-award (NNJ15HK11B) through KBRwyle for a project entitled "One-Carbon Metabolism Genetics Data Analyses."
Ryan Shaw and Ph.D. student Anna Diane received an award for Diane's NIH/NINR NRSA Fellowship proposal "Engaging Black Men in Digital Health to Improve Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes: An Iterative Participatory Design Approach."
The Enabling Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections team, led by Susanne Haga, has been renewed for the 2020-2021 school year.
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.
Seen & Heard
Ginsburg presents at G2MC International Conference
Geoff Ginsburg presented an overview of IGNITE I and II at the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative Virtual International Conference.
Featured Publications
CAGPMers evaluate impact of family health history collection on data and risk assessment outcomes
Ryanne Wu, Geoff Ginsburg and Lori Orlando examined the differences in data detail and risk identification rates between FHH collection directly from individuals using paper-based forms and an interactive web-based platform.
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 looks at enabling technologies for personalized and precision medicine
Geoff Ginsburg and team highlight breakthroughs in the development of enabling technologies that further the goal of personalized and precision medicine, and remaining challenges that, when addressed, may allow truly individualized patient care.
Henao applies machine learning algorithm to predict malignancy in thyroid cytopathology
Ricardo Henao was part of a team that developed a machine learning algorithm to evaluate thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy via whole slide images to predict malignancy.
Shaw studies self-monitoring diabetes with multiple mobile devices
Ryan Shaw co-authored a paper examining the use of mobile health technologies to generate and transmit data from diverse patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in between clinic visits.
WearDuke team publishes protocol for pilot study
The WearDuke protocol aims to describe a pilot feasibility study on wearables to assess student interest and to gather baseline data from college freshman, for the academic year 2019 to 2020.
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.