Recent News
Lori Orlando recipient of third large network grant
Lori Orlando received new funding to advance MeTree family health history project.
Houston, We Have an Eye Problem
CAGPMers are working with a team at NASA to explore gene-environment interactions in astronauts.
Early Detection of COVID-19: How Your Smartwatch Could Help
Duke researchers aim to detect coronavirus infections early in CovIdentify study.
IGNITE Hits Major Milestone
The University of Florida just randomized the first patient in to the GUARDD-US pragmatic clinical trial.
Reflections from CAGPM's T32 Graduates
CAGPM's Post-doctoral Training Program in Genomic Medicine Research just graduated our second class of trainees.
Needed: A More Diverse Pool of Biomedical Research Subjects
Susanne Haga argues for more diversity in biomedical research subjects.
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
Duke Digital Health Week 2020
September 21, 2020 (All day)
Genomic and Precision Medicine Forum: Neal Lakdawala, M.D.
September 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
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
How Prepared Are We For the Next Pandemic?
Dr. Chris Woods spoke with KNX 1070 News Radio to discuss our preparedness for the next pandemic.
Featured Publications
CAGPM team studies host response to SARS-CoV-2
CAGPM faculty and staff showed that the transcriptome in peripheral blood reveals unique aspects of the immune response in COVID-19 and provides for novel biomarker-based approaches to diagnosis.
CAGPMers evaluate influence of sex on aspirin efficacy
Geoff Ginsburg, Rachel Myers, Deepak Voora and team observed agonist-dependent sex differences in platelet responses to aspirin in recent study.
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.
Possible shared genetic etiologies between LOAD and PTSD
Doug Williamson and team demonstrated common genetic signatures for late‐onset Alzheimer's disease and post-traumatic stress syndrome.
The Importance of Family Health History
Susanne Haga and Lori Orlando provide an overview of various risk assessment approaches and their benefits, limitations and implementation challenges.
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.