Recent News
Special edition of Health Affairs highlights the power of precision medicine
Health Affairs published their first ever issue devoted to precision medicine, which highlights the broad spectrum of issues associated with development and implementation of this field.
CAGPMers to present poster at American College of Medical Genetics meeting
Susanne Haga, Rachel Myers, Geoff Ginsburg, and colleagues presented a poster at the annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics in Charlotte, N.C.
Ephraim Tsalik spoke at the 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.
Events
Genomic and Precision Medicine Forum: Carolyn Baloh, M.D. & Cory Stingl, M.D.
May 24, 2018 - 12:00pm
CIEMAS 2240
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Precision Population Health
May 25, 2018 - 8:00am
Duke University Hospital Room 2002
Keystone Symposia Genomics Meeting in Hannover
June 4, 2018 (All day)
2018 Keystone Symposia: One Million Genomes: From Discovery to Health
June 4, 2018 - 8:00pm
Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany
New Funding
Tim Veldman, Tom Burke, and Geoff Ginsburg, along with Department of Neurology's Danny Laskowitz, Shreyansh Shah and Saurabh Sinha were awarded a grant from the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
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.
Geoff Ginsburg and Susanne Haga featured in Health Affairs
Ginsburg co-authored an overview of precision medicine and its vital stakeholders. Haga along with Duke undergraduate research assistant Ariel Kantor report on their analysis of the number and types of pharmacogenetic tests offered by clinical testing laboratories in the U.S.
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.
Mills and colleagues publish series of pharmacogenetic testing case scenarios
Rachel Mills and several other genetic counselors have published examples of pharmacogenetic testing applications across a range of medical specialties.
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.