Anita (Silver) Shlesinger

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering

Current Projects:

  1. Verily Project Baseline: Microbiomes
  2. All of Us: ASCVD Prediction 
  3. Biosignal Review
  4. DBDP-A (Digital Biomarker Discovery Project - Autonomic)

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 428 Wilkinson Bldg.
  • Email Address: anita.silver@duke.edu

Research Interests

  1. Health data science
  2. Cardiovascular disease
  3. Wearables
  4. Gut microbiome
  5. AI

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • 2020-2021 Duke Pratt Gardner Fellowship
  • 2021-2023 NIH T32 Training Award
  • 2023-2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
  • Project funding from the Precision Microbiome Engineering Center, the Duke Microbiome Center, and by Verily Life Sciences