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Duke is offering a second COVID-19 booster shot to eligible members of the Duke community who received their first booster at least four months ago.
Duke scientists developed a prophylactic nasal spray and early treatment throat spray for SARS-CoV-2 by repurposing niclosamide, a metabolic inhibitor previously used for 60 years for gut parasite infections.
The Chronicle spoke with Grant about how he discovered a passion for neuroscience, his experience serving in the U.S. Air Force and the Duke experience that has shaped his life to this day.
In addition to the findings about children’s brain development, the study raised many more important questions about behavior, financial spending and familial relationships.
The main goals of this initiative are to ensure equitable and increased access to clinical research for underrepresented populations; grow the diversity of the University’s clinical research workforce; and remove barriers to research participation.
The renovated Duke Children’s Hospital, located on the first four floors, aims to provide more care and comfort for children under treatment and their families.
The published Coursera course retains much of the original program’s structure, including a similar blend of pre-recorded lectures with additional guest components.
Aside from clinical work—which comprises about 30 to 40 percent of her average week—and her administrative role at Duke, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a passionate advocate for the Latinx community.
By hiring professors in three focuses, Duke hopes to reshape the education of future leaders in science and technology to achieve breakthroughs in global challenges.
Duke Health research initiatives have found that worldwide vaccine distribution must become more equitable to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Though not mandated by the University, booster shots are currently strongly recommended. They are “clearly MOST important for those vaccinated further back, as antibodies wane," one expert said.
The DHVI announced this summer that they had created a vaccine that was protective against SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—and its variants.
Audiences were invited by the Duke Lemur Center to celebrate the day by taking a virtual tour of the center and learning more about lemur species conservation.
The groundbreaking therapy is the only available treatment for pediatric congenital athymia patients.
"Our goal is to transform access to health care for rural children across the [United States]," Susan Emmett explained. "Grants like this can greatly facilitate our ability to create that transformation."
“When this award came along, it was essentially designed for what I had already been doing over the course of my career, but I never expected to be rewarded for it in a million years,” Rudin wrote.
The team of researchers from Duke and other universities aims to “make a material that can be super-soft and super-elastic (so that you can reversibly stretch it 100-fold) but also super-tough and hard to break."
“She just rolls with the punches, so she’s ready to get back to some normalcy. She loves school and she loves riding the bus; she is ready to get back on the school bus.”
“For us in Africa, the continent perhaps where eventually they will say the deadliest variant of all emerged, it will only emerge because the world failed to do what was right in the moment that it was supposed to do it.”
Xilis’s current collaborations include other academic centers in the United States and major pharmaceutical companies.