Recent News
Olivia Dong Wins ACC Young Investigator Award in Outcomes Research
Congratulations to Olivia Dong, PhD, current postdoctoral fellow funded by the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine T32 grant
Testing Tool Can Quickly Distinguish Between Viral and Bacterial Infections
This article was originally produced and posted by Duke Health News
Duke CAGPM Data Science and Analytics Team is Hiring Biostatisticians
Our center is looking for biostatisticians to help compile data, plan and complete statistical analysis, prepare statistical analysis for presentat
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
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.
Lori Orlando has received a sub-award (1U01-HG011166-01) through the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a project entitled "The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Genomic Risk Assessment and Management Network-Coordinating Center."
Chris Woods has received a sub-award () through the Institute for Medical Research, Inc. for a project entitled "IMR PSA - Deborah Murray Ensemble Study."
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
Integrating Multiscale Geospatial Environmental Data Into Large Population Health Studies
Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg spoke at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on accelerating science and advancing health through the International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium.
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.
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.
Chris Woods speaks with Congressman Price on Facebook Live about COVID-19
CAGPM faculty member Dr. Chris Woods and Dr. Colin Duckett from Duke Health recently joined Congressman David Price on Facebook Live to help answer questions about COVID19.
Doraiswamy Hosts George Church at Genomic and Precision Medicine Forum
CAGPM affiliated faculty member Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., hosted George Church, Ph.D., at the Genomic and Precision Medicine Weekly Forum.
CAGPMers Participate in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Ytina Mangum, Alexis Kessenich, Monica Grier and Sabrina Beatty participate in Breast Cancer Walk.
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.