CTSI News

The next Virtual Research Town Hall will feature several CTSI staff and faculty directors who are experts in community-engaged research and partnership building.

Duke CTSI announces the publication of a new case study, “Maternal Morbidity at Duke and UNC: A Multicenter Examination of Risk Factors and Trends of Pregnancy-Related Morbidity,” a research project led by Marie-Louise Meng, MD, co-principal investigator for Duke University, and Johanna Quist-Nelson, MD, co-principal investigator for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Three research teams from Duke University and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) were selected to receive supplemental funding to advance their innovation in biomedical research. The awards, which were available by invitation only to previous recipients of the Duke-NCCU Collaborative Translational Research Grants, provide $40,000 to each team for a six-month extension of their successful collaborations.

In a third round of rapid response funding from the Advancing Health Equity Together Grant program, eight community organizations have received $7,000 awards from Duke to address a range of preventable and treatable chronic diseases.

The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announces new faculty leadership for the Primary Care Research Consortium (PCRC), a research network for academic and community practices within Duke Health and surrounding communities.

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.