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The Whitehead Scholars Program, supported through a gift from the Whitehead Charitable Foundation, helps attract and nurture the most promising biomedical researchers to the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine. Source: https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/news-and-communications/med-school-blog/school-medicine-celebrates-2020-faculty-award-recipients

The poster “DARPA Prometheus Study: Digital Biomarkers to Predict Influenza Infection” was awarded 3rd place at Duke Research Computing Symposium’s poster session. Emilia Grzesiak presented her project that is looking into how the Empatica E4 wearable device can be used…

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.…

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.  

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

  An estimated 40 million people in the United States have smartwatches or fitness trackers that can monitor their heartbeats. But some people of color may be at risk of getting inaccurate readings. Read full article  

Student teams from all over the world competed in an Online Hackathon for the HL7 Student Track Cup Redmond 2019. Duke’s team was one of three finalists, winning 3-day passes to the HL7 FHIR Development Days Conference.  Three team members and their…

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…