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Research Roundup: June 2019

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in June 2019:

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Ornit Chiba-Falek Co-Inventor of Gene Therapy Program Acquired by Seelos Therapeutics

Seelos Therapeutics Announces Acquisition of an Exclusive Worldwide License of Gene Therapy Program to Address Parkinson's Disease from...

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Wray and Crawford Study What Made Humans 'The Fat Primate'

Blame junk food or a lack of exercise. But long before the modern obesity epidemic, evolution made us fat too.

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picture for GAN cells (red: vimentin; blue: DAPI; green: tubulin) with big red (vimentin) aggregates (dots)

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Sweet Adaptation

Investigating the effects of glucose on adaptor proteins to treat Giant Axonal Neuropathy and other diseases

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June 25, 2019

Request for Proposals: Translating Duke Health Neurosciences Initiative

Duke Health has announced three pilot funding opportunities to build infastructure and pilot data in support of an upcoming institutional application to become an Alzheimer's Disease Center.

June 21, 2019

Chan Zuckerbeg Initiative Awards $68 Million to Support the Growth of the Human Cell Atlas

New grants support networks of scientists from diverse disciplines who study a variety of healthy human organs

June 17, 2019

Defending Against Kidney Cell Carcinomas

Chi and Hsu found that depriving tumors of cysteine, a non-essential amino acid that becomes essential only to tumor cells once they have been malignantly transformed, has been shown to shrink tumor cells.

June 14, 2019

Svati Shah Named Director of Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory

Svati Shah, M.D., MHS, has been appointed director of the Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory and associate dean of genomics.

June 11, 2019

GCB Receives Grant To Create New International Training Program

The Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program called “Dissecting the Regulatory Genome Duke-Berlin Training Program.”