CTSI News

Duke CTSI Director Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, FIDSA, has been named the Catherine Wilfert Distinguished Professor of Medicine. Naggie is among 17 faculty members at Duke University School of Medicine who have been awarded distinguished professorships.

The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is offering a unique opportunity to co-direct the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) by leadership appointment.

Duke CTSI and the Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) have teamed up with a unique program managed by Duke medical students that encourages Durham teenagers to explore careers in health professions.

A study found that resting heart rate measured with an investigational watch worn during the Project Baseline Health Study correlated strongly with electrocardiography (ECG), considered the gold standard.

From aiding simulated surgeries to coordinating a mock clinical trial, prospective students gained hands-on experience with career possibilities offered at the new Durham Early College of Health Sciences (DECHS) during an event co-hosted by Duke CTSI.

Through funding from the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI), CTSI supported new research published in Healthcare about the potential of medically tailored grocery deliveries to improve food security and hypertension in under-resourced communities.

A unique collaboration launched four years ago between CTSI and Durham Technical Community College continues to thrive and recently welcomed the latest cohort of the Clinical Research Equity Scholars Program.

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.