Duke Kannapolis News

CTSI acknowledges and celebrates Native American Heritage Month. This nationwide observance provides an important opportunity to recognize and honor the rich cultures, histories, and contributions of Tribal Nations, as well as raise awareness about both the historical and current struggles of Indigenous people.

The Duke Center for Precision Health and Precision Genomics Collaboratory have awarded five pilot grants to advance genomic science at Duke by leveraging and enhancing the OneDukeGen study infrastructure.

We encourage you to use this time to deepen your understanding, show appreciation, and continue to foster an inclusive environment at CTSI and beyond where every voice is heard and valued.

Using data from community studies based at Duke Kannapolis, researchers found that COVID vaccination was not associated with new onset of APOL1-related kidney disease in African American adults who were at high risk for the condition.

Two journals have published findings from the Project Baseline Health Study, a community-based research initiative by Duke University School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Verily Life Sciences, and others that collected, organized, and analyzed broad health data from thousands of participants over more than four years. 

The Center for Precision Health (CPH) has announced the addition of 10 faculty members. CPH is a collaborative effort between Duke CTSI and the Precision Genomics Collaboratory (PGC) that works to harness the power of genomic, biomarker, and health data to transform patient care and population health. 

Personal Genome Diagnostics is the first company to obtain a license to materials from a unique community registry and biorepository managed by Duke CTSI. The license marks a milestone for the MURDOCK Study, a longitudinal population health research program that enrolled its first participant in 2009. The registry and biorepository include samples and associated data from over 12,000 participants, based at CTSI’s Duke Kannapolis research site, now a part of the new Center for Precision Health (CPH).

The Duke University School of Medicine has announced that Svati H. Shah, MD, MS, MHS, has been named associate dean for translational research, effective immediately. Shah directs the Duke Center for Precision Health, a collaborative effort between CTSI and the Precision Genomics Collaboratory that includes CTSI’s research site at Duke Kannapolis and the OneDukeGen initiative.

Duke CTSI is pleased to present the 2023 CTSI Translational Impact Report, Partnering to Improve Health, Trust, and Equity in our Communities.

Through a collaboration designed to advance research in health equity and social drivers of health, the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Center for Precision Health have partnered with the Center for Nursing Research at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) to bring more than 20,000 biological samples and linked data from a community-based registry at Duke Kannapolis to investigators at DUSON.