DMPI News

Brian Andonian, MD was recently awarded the Rheumatology Fellows Excellence in Research Award. He is the inaugural winner for the award which is voted on by Duke faculty and given to the one fellow who most exemplifies outstanding research in the division.

We are pleased to announce Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS and Nancie MacIver MD, PhD as the recipients of the 2020 Borden Scholars Award

DMPI faculty member Simon Gregory’s Molecular Genomics Core is among the first 45 international members selected for participation in 10x Genomics Visium Clinical Translational Research Network (CTRN).

James Giarraputo is a 3rd year Duke Medical Student doing two years of research with DMPI faculty member Simon Gregory.

Skeletal muscle has remarkable regenerative capacity using a coordinated effort from both myogenic and immune cells to restore form and function. Factors that help orchestrate immune cell flux and/or phenotype during the regenerative period are still unclear and could help our understanding of the complexities of the muscle repair process.

The human cerebral cortex is important for cognition, and it is of interest to see how genetic variants affect its structure. DMPI faculty members Allison Ashley-Koch and Mike Hauser and DMPI staff member Melanie Garrett were part of a team of researchers who combined genetic data with brain magnetic resonance imaging from more than 50,000 people to generate a genome-wide analysis of how human genetic variation influences human cortical surface area and thickness.

We are pleased to announce the award of a new NIH Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (DERC) grant, representing a collaboration between the Wake Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke Medical Centers.

Assistant professor of Medicine David Bartlett, PhD has been selected to receive a $150,000 clinical-junior-faculty-level 2020 ASH Scholar Award by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to study the underlying mechanisms and clinical usefulness of exercise training on the immune system of older patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

A team of researchers at DMPI led by Postdoctoral Associate, Ashley Williams, and Professor of Medicine, Deb Muoio, sought to understand why mitochondria–the primary metabolic engines in most cells–begin to fail when organisms are exposed to chronic overnutrition and obesity.

The list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 includes two DMPI scientists: DMPI Metabolomics Core Laboratory Director Olga Ilkayeva and DMPI Director Chris Newgard. They are two of Duke’s 54 prominent and influential researchers included in the list.