Recent News
Your smartwatch could tell if you have an infection days before you develop a fever
Duke CovIdentify researchers are hoping to use smartwatches to catch early signs of COVID-19 infection and maybe even predict how severe patients’ symptoms will be.
CAGPM At Home: A Look At Lockdown Office Life
What does working from home look like for CAGPM? Take a peek inside our new office life.
Ricardo Henao Earns 2020 DIHI Innovation Award
Ricardo Henao among principal investigators who received this year's Innovation Awards from the Duke Institute of Health Innovation.
A Bright Spot From the Pandemic: A Rise in Science Literacy
There may be silver linings to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Susanne Haga: increased scientific literacy and, perhaps, greater interest in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM).
Emerging Themes in SARS-CoV-2 Biology, Disease and Treatment
Watch Chris Woods' keynote speech at the School of Medicine's virtual COVID-19 Research Symposium on April 17, 2020.
Duke School of Nursing Innovates to Help Fight COVID-19
Ryan Shaw is leading a team to test and produce products for immediate use as part of the fight against COVID-19.
Events
Webinar Series- Advancing Precision Health: The Opportunity that is Pharmacogenomics
July 2, 2019 - 8:00am
SciTS Virtual Conference
June 1, 2020 (All day)
If the Medicine Fits - The Promise of Precision Medicine in Action
June 8, 2020 (All day)
Zoom Webinar
COVIDENTIFY: Using Wearable Devices and Smartphones to Detect and Monitor COVID-19 and Influenza
June 17, 2020 - 10:00am
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
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.
Featured Publications
CAGPMers evaluate impact of family health history collection on data and risk assessment outcomes
Ryanne Wu, Geoff Ginsburg and Lori Orlando examined the differences in data detail and risk identification rates between FHH collection directly from individuals using paper-based forms and an interactive web-based platform.
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 looks at 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.
Henao applies machine learning algorithm to predict malignancy in thyroid cytopathology
Ricardo Henao was part of a team that developed a machine learning algorithm to evaluate thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy via whole slide images to predict malignancy.
Shaw studies self-monitoring diabetes with multiple mobile devices
Ryan Shaw co-authored a paper examining the use of mobile health technologies to generate and transmit data from diverse patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in between clinic visits.
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.