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In January 2024, Duke University launched a celebration of its centennial — a historic opportunity to recognize Duke’s extraordinary past, communicate the impact of the present, and look toward Duke's potential impact going forward.

MD & MDiv grad Monica Bodd thinks a lot about the patient experience and how to make it better — both through research and clinical practice. You can take the doctor out of Duke, but you can't take Duke out of the doctor.

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, and Katherine Garman, MD, were recognized for their recognized for their equity, diversity, and inclusion work, and Sabino Zani, MD, was recognized as a master clinician/teacher.

For the first time since 2019, the DCI Scientific Retreat was held in person with a full program followed by a poster session and mingling — attracted around 90 faculty, staff, and trainees.

The Duke BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center grew, thrived, and progressively built a national reputation. “Its success represents the evolution and extension of the Department of Pathology’s support and commitment to cancer research."

Flags were lowered to half-staff today (June 17, 2020) across Duke for Neil Spector, MD, a nationally recognized physician-scientist, translational research leader, and oncology mentor, who passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2020. He was 63.

The DCI 8th Annual Scientific Retreat attracted a broad array of faculty, trainees (students, residents, fellows, postdocs, etc.) and staff. For a second year, the retreat was entirely virtual.

The first annual Neil L. Spector Art of Medicine Award, which recognizes "exemplary mentorship practices in clinical and translational research," was presented last month to Kimberly Johnson, MD, MHS and Kim Huffman, MD, PhD.

Community outreach and engagement at DCI comes of age; team expands.

DCI's Office of Health Equity — in partnership with city and state public health groups, the Center for Black Equity, and LCI NC — hosts a webinar featuring Jennifer Garst, MD, and patients on the threats of tobacco, radon, and COVID-19 to the lungs.

In observance of Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Denise Spector, PhD, shares her husband's final months spent fighting cancer and thanks his heroes on 9100.

Neil Spector, MD, a physician-scientist, translational research leader, and oncology mentor died on June 14, 2020. He was 63.

The DCI Virtual Grand Rounds Series, came to a successful summer close with its final session on June 19. Topics included home-based care for ABMT patients, pandemic telehealth, immunotherapy, brain metastasis, sarcoma, lung cancer, & health equity.

Flags were lowered to half-staff today across Duke for Neil Spector, MD, physician-scientist, mentor, advocate, friend, husband, and father who passed away on June 14.

The NCI has created two pages on its website related to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation: "Coronavirus: What People with Cancer Should Know" and "Coronavirus: Guidance for Cancer Researchers."

No one teaches you how to advocate and care for your loved one. One woman — a wife, mother, and caregiver— share's her journey down this path and beyond.

DCI virologist Micah A. Luftig, PhD, was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; recognized for his contributions to biological science in the field of viral oncology.

DCI’s Gita Suneja , MD, MSHP, has received a five-year NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award for her project “Cancer Treatment Disparities in the HIV Population."

Meira Epplein, PhD, MS, MA, can hardly recall a time when she wasn’t thinking about what she now considers her “life’s work” — researching Helicobacter pylori, the primary identified cause of stomach cancer.