DMPI News

A recent study by Amro Ilaiway, MD, a Duke endocrinology fellow working with DMPI Associate Director David D'Alessio, found that bacterial translocation from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract may contribute to the multi-organ failure associated with sepsis.

Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS, gave The Michelle P. Winn, MD, Endowed Lectureship presentation at the annual American Society of Nephrology meeting in November, 2019.

Exciting research from the Virginia Kraus lab, has identified a mechanism for innate cartilage repair in humans similar to that used by salamanders and zebrafish to regenerate limbs.

The Endocrine Society, a global community dedicated to advancing hormone research, has chosen 13 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2020 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field.

CALERIE was a study designed to determine the biological effects of two years of prolonged caloric restriction in humans. In a paper recently published in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology by William Kraus and colleagues, the authors found that metabolic health was greatly improved over the course of the study.

Duke Medicine announced that Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital who investigates the use of patient-stem cell-derived podocytes as tools for uncovering disease mechanisms of APOL1 nephropathy, will be joining the DMPI and the Duke Division of Nephrology later this year.

Our talented DMPI Staff member Leslie Kelly is participating in the Duke Employee Art Show.

DMPI Faculty member Svati Shah, MD, MHS, has been named Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of the Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory.

During the 2019 Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) world congress meeting, DMPI faculty member Virginia Kraus received the lifetime achievement award.

STRRIDE (Studies Targeting Risk Reduction Interventions through Defined Exercise) was an eight-month exercise study conducted from 1998–2003. Subjects were randomized to control or one of three exercise groups differing in intensity and amount. To determine if there were legacy effects, 104 subjects from the Duke site returned for testing.