Recent News
Advancing Personalized Medicine Through Inclusive Biomedical Research
A Virtual Discussion Moderated by Personalized Medicine Coalition Founder Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
April 22, 2021 | 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. ET
Breaking Barriers, Building Careers
Center Training Program Empowers Genetic Counselors in Research
Six Feet Apart, an Emotional Toll
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of first-person essays by members of the Duke community reflecting on a year living with COVID-19.
Family Health History Collection Increases Cancer Carrier Detection
Clinicians have historically used family health history collection as a primary method for identifying actionable disease-risk assessments.
Deepak Voora speaks in American Medical Association Pharmacogenomics Virtual Summit Series
Deepak Voora, MD, represents the Department of Veterans Affairs in an American Medical Association panel discussion covering diverse perspectives o
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative International Conference
September 29, 2021 (All day)
Santiago, Chile
New Funding
Geoffrey Ginsburg has received a supplemental award to the IGNITE II Coordinating Center: Engagement, Coordination, Demonstration, and Dissemination to provide support to the NHGRI Training Modules in Genomic Medicine program.
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.
Evaluating Transcriptomic Biomarkers' Role in Early Identification of Viral Infections
CAGPMers monitored Duke students and close contacts who developed respiratory tract infection symptoms, demonstrating transcriptomal biomarkers' ability to accurately predict and diagnose infection.
NLP Methods Outperform Structured Data Approach When Identifying Patients With PAD
Ricardo Henao and team investigated natural language processing methods to identify patients with peripheral artery disease, offering a more effective alternative to the structured data-based approach.
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.
VA PHASER program brings free PGx testing to veterans
Deepak Voora, T32 fellow Olivia Dong and team have been working on the Veterans Affairs Pharmacogenomic Testing for Veterans clinical program, which offers free, multi-gene pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing for 250,000 veterans over 5 years.
Variation in SARS-CoV-2 Infections Found Among Children
Chris Woods and team observed age-related variability in SARS-CoV-2 symptoms between children and adolescents, as well as Hispanic ethnicity and history of asthma playing a role in infection risk.
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.