Research News

Faculty member Stacy Horner will be one of three guests presenting at the 2023 Cell Press webinar, "RNA sensing in immunity".

Carissa Harvest working in the Miao lab described a new mouse model to study how granulomas, cellular fortresses built around foreign objects, kill pathogens.

Researchers in Maria Ciofani's lab, studying multiple sclerosis in mice, have identified a protein that could reshape the understanding of MS treatments.

Kengo Nozaki and Ed Miao have published a review in Trends in Cell Biology (September 2023) where they propose a new way of thinking about cell death.

Congratulations to Fernando Souza for receiving a diversity supplement from the NIH to fund his graduate thesis.

Fernando is studying how the innate immune system forms a successful granuloma against a novel environmental pathogen called Chromobacterium violaceum. He is in Ed Miao's lab.

Jessica Portillo of Raphael Valdivia's lab, is one of the 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) awards recipient. Jessica is currently a grad student in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM).

In groundbreaking work in the field of probiotic research, a team led by Dr. Raphael Valdivia in the Duke Department of Integrative Immunobiology has described a system for the genetic manipulation of Akkermansia muciniphila, an emerging probiotic microbe with remarkable immunomodulatory properties.

Congratulations to Kevin Saunders and Wilton Williams for receiving 2023 Duke School of Medicine Faculty Awards!