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Andrew Scott Allen

Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Aravind Asokan

Professor in Surgery

VirologyRNA BiologyViral EngineeringRNA EngineeringGene TherapyGene EditingGene RegulationRegenerative Medicine

Karl-Dimiter Bissig

Chen Family Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Our group is interested in diseases of the liver, ranging from viral hepatitis to metabolic liver disorders and liver cancer. The lab specializes in human liver chimeric mice and created the first xenograft model for metabolic liver disease as well as a novel patient derived cancer model. We…

Nenad Bursac

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Embryonic and adult stem cell therapies for heart and muscle disease; cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue engineering; cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias; genetic modifications of stem and somatic cells; micropatterning of proteins and hydrogels.

Pranam D. Chatterjee

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Integration of computational and experimental methodologies to design novel proteins for applications in genome editing, targeted protein modulation, and reproductive bioengineering

Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi

Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

We are using functional genomic approaches to investigate the nutrient signaling and stress adaptations of cancer cells when exposed to various nutrient deprivations and microenvironmental stress conditions. Recently, we focus on two areas. First, we are elucidating the genetic determinants…

Christopher Chidley

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Emma Jean Chory

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Maria Ciofani

Associate Professor of Integrative Immunobiology

Gregory E. Crawford

Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics

Alicia Darnell

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Sandeep S. Dave

Wellcome Clinical Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Yarui Diao

Associate Professor of Cell Biology

1. Gene regulation of muscle regeneration.2. Genomics technology development.3. Genetic and epigenetic control of rhabdomyosarcoma.

Diana Remy Dou

Assistant Professor of Integrative Immunobiology

Charles Gersbach

John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Gene therapy, genomics and epigenomics, biomolecular and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology.

Raluca Mihaela Gordan

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Simon Gray Gregory

Margaret Harris and David Silverman Distinguished Professor

Brain tumorsMultiple Sclerosis

Autism

Alzheimer Disease

Application of single cell and spatial technologies to basic and translational research

Alexander J. Hartemink

Professor of Computer Science

John Wirthlin Hickey

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Using and developing systems biology tools and technologies to describe and control spatial relationships between cells in tissues, particularly in cell therapies.

Josh Huang

Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience

Boris Kantor

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurobiology

Cameron M Kim

Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Education advances in biomolecular/cellular engineering, mathematical modeling of biological systems, biotechnology design, and integrating ethics in BME curriculum. Expanding authentic research experiences in undergraduate education.

Craig Lowe

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Micah Luftig

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

William Majoros

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Probabilistic machine learning Bayesian graphical models Structured prediction Interpretation/prioritization of genetic variants in disease RNA splicing Gene regulation Computational linguistics - formal grammars and parsing Syntactic structure and memetic evolution in complex bird song…

Douglas Alan Marchuk

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Anoop Patel

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

My research lab focuses on using single-cell sequencing techniques to study intratumoral heterogeneity in malignant brain tumors. Intratumoral heterogeneity is the idea that individual cancer cells within a patient’s tumor are different and can respond differently to treatments. I also have…

Timothy E Reddy

Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Adrianna Katrina San Roman

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Current research areas utilize our core methodologic expertise in functional genomics, epigenetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics and include 1) investigating the mechanisms by which epigenetic and transcriptional regulators encoded on the X and Y chromosomes influence global gene…

Svati Hasmukh Shah

Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases

Debra Lynn Silver

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Rohit Singh

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Drug discoveries have been instrumental in improving global health over the last century, but the median drug now takes about 10 years to bring to market and costs over a billion dollars to develop. My lab aims to expedite the development of precise diagnostics and therapeutics by applying…

Multi-Cellular Tumor MicroenvironmentTumor, like many…