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Infographic from SKIN study depicting the research study design using wearables
February 19, 2020

Fostering Evidence-Based Precision Health: How Accurate is Our Wearable Data?

Wearable technology has the potential to transform healthcare and research through accessible, continuous, and longitudinal health monitoring. The coming ubiquity of wearable technology will particularly provide a unique opportunity to revolutionize health care in communities with traditionally limited healthcare access.…

Jessilyn Dunn and Will Wang pose smiling while Will Wang holds a certificate for his Pratt Gardner Fellowship
December 4, 2019

Pratt Gardner Fellowship Award goes to Will

Congratulations to our lab member, Will Wang, for receiving a Pratt Gardner fellowship which aspires to help attract and develop outstanding scholars at Duke University.  

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December 4, 2019

Way to go, Connor Davis!

  Congratulations to our very own Connor Davis on completing his final Masters’ presentation this fall semester!  

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June 1, 2019

PhD Candidate Brinnae Bent awarded Duke Forge Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

The Forge pre-doctoral fellowship is a competitive, fully funded fellowship program focused on scholarship opportunities for research at the intersection of quantitative science and health. The Forge funds innovative, strategic, and creative research partnerships that apply new analytical tools to solve challenges…

Brinnae Bent and Jessilyn Dunn look at a computer screen and activity watch
May 19, 2019

BIG IDEAs Lab featured in DukEngineer Magazine 2019

Improving Patient Outcomes by Analyzing Wearable Data: MEDx Investigator Jessilyn Dunn brings a fresh perspective on big data and wearable technology to Duke’s growing network of engineering and medical collaborations. Read the article Download the PDF

Announcement for Jessilyn Dunn in MEDx Investigators featuring headshot of Jessilyn Dunn
November 7, 2018

Jessilyn Dunn announced MEDx Pilot Project Grant Awardee

The awarded grants speak to the diversity of subject matter seen in this year’s applications: medical devices, vaccines, machine learning, digital health applications, as well as engagement by all Pratt School of Engineering departments and a diverse group of departments…

Jessilyn Dunn smiling with blue striped background
June 5, 2018

Jessilyn Dunn: Gaining Insights from Biomedical Big Data

Jessilyn Dunn will join the faculty of Duke University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics (B&B) beginning January 1, 2019. Read full article. With research centered on using large-scale biomedical data sets to determine positive health outcomes,…