CTSI News

Affiliate Duke CTSI faculty members Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, and Senthil Selvaraj, MD, have been named to the 2025 Office for Faculty leadership programs at Duke University School of Medicine. 

During the second training offered in 2025 to the Duke research community, the CTSI Center for Equity in Research will host a transformative, virtual workshop focused on the core principles of gender equity in research. The workshop offers a variety of continuing education credit.

Workforce development teams at CTSI and the Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) recently partnered with young mentors from the Duke BOOST program to engage Durham eighth graders in exploring clinical research and pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM).

The workshop, “Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens through 5Ws Framework in Research,” will be held on Zoom from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, and Dane Whicker, PhD, co-directors for the CTSI Center for Equity in Research, will lead the training.

The 6th Annual Invented at Duke event featured CTSI and the CTSI Accelerator team as a resource for funding, expertise, and project management support to help translate Duke science from discovery to deployment.

Duke CTSI staff member Janis Curtis, MSPH, MA, recently met with Congresswoman Deborah Ross to advocate for federal legislation to help prevent falls through patient education and annual risk assessment. Falls are the leading cause of injury for adults ages 65 years and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nicoleta J. Economou-Zavlanos, PhD, has been named director of the newly established Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance (E&G) Program. She will be charged with driving the trustworthy, responsible, and equitable integration of AI in health care.

Duke Health, along with Duke University School of Medicine and Duke CTSI, announce a third round of Rapid Response funding for the Community Initiative to Advance Health Equity Together Through Education and Outreach Grant Program.

Rural populations have been historically underrepresented/excluded from clinical research. However, there is limited data to guide decisions on inclusion of rural populations at the study level. This paper for Clinical and Translational Science, co-authored by members of the Duke CTSI Integrating Special Populations (ISP) team, describes the inclusion of rural populations within our research enterprise using Clinical Research Management System demographic information at a large academic medical center in the Southeast.

These findings do not support the use of montelukast for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19, reported Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, director of Duke CTSI, and colleagues.