Duke University School of Medicine postdoctoral researcher Drew Schreiner, PhD, has been named a 2026 STAT Wunderkind by STAT News for his work understanding how songbirds learn and develop their song ...

Culture shapes how people move through the world, what they value, and often, the career paths they pursue. Three leaders ...

Durham, NC 2026. Duke showed its support at the event’s Pride Vendor & Food Truck Rodeo held at Durham Central Park on ...

Duke University has named the latest recipients of its Climate and Health Big Idea Grants, a program aimed at accelerating research into the growing health impacts of climate change. At the symposium, ...

Carrie Brown, MD'04, HS'04-'08, MPH, credits her first clinical rotation as a Duke University medical student at John Umstead Hospital, a former psychiatric inpatient facility in Butner, North ...

New weight-loss drugs that combine natural gut hormones are helping people lose significant weight and better control blood sugar, but scientists are still working to understand exactly how they work.

If 98.8% of our DNA is the same as that of a chimpanzee, then what changes in that remaining 1.2% make us human? Duke researchers are discovering how small differences contribute to the defining ...

What if a molecule made by a bacterium in the gut could help the body burn more of the fat most closely linked to metabolic disease? New research from Duke University School of Medicine points to a ...

As Assistant Dean of Financial Aid and Registrar, Lori Crooks provides administrative oversight and leadership for the School of Medicine financial aid and registration processes. She works to develop ...

Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer, PhD, thought he knew what he’d find when he traveled to Tanzania to live among the Hadza, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities on Earth.