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
2019 Protein Biomarkers in Precision Medicine Colloquium
November 22, 2019 - 8:00am
Trent Semans Center, Great Hall
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series: Could Poetry Save Doctoring?
December 3, 2019 - 12:00pm
Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2002
Genomic and Precision Medicine Weekly Forum: George Church, Ph.D.
December 5, 2019 - 12:00pm
103 Bryan Research Building
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.
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 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 discusses pharmacogenomic testing in pedatrics
In a new review, Susanne Haga provides background on the use of PGx testing in children as well as mothers and discusses the challenges, benefits, and the ethical, legal and social implications of providing PGx testing to children.
Haga, Myers and Orlando assess awareness of family health history (FHH) in young adults
Susanne Haga, Rachel Myers and Lori Orlando assessed young adults' attitudes and knowledge about FHH to understand the barriers to FHH-based risk assessment in young adults. The team also developed and evaluated educational resources designed specifically for young adults.
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.
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.