Announcements

Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed annually on November 20th to memorialize those murdered as a result of transphobia worldwide. Find more information and statistics on the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

 

Congratulations to Lynn Harrington on receiving the Duke School of Medicine Research Staff Appreciation Award. The Research Staff Appreciation Awards recognize staff members who provide exemplary support in the conduct of research.  

Congratulations to Dr. Guido Ferrari for being a recipient of this year’s School of Medicine Faculty Awards. Dr. Ferrari was one of six faculty members to receive the Research Mentoring Award.  The Research Mentoring Awards recognize faculty members in the School of Medicine for excellence in research mentoring.

The DHVI is pleased to announce that Persephone Borrow, PhD has joined the Institute as an affiliate faculty member. Dr. Borrow is a Professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on innate and T cell responses in acute and early HIV-1 infection to inform the rational design of effective strategies for HIV prophylaxis and therapy.  Dr. Borrow has been engaged in HIV research since the early 1990s, and her team at Oxford University have collaborated with Dr.

The Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Mike Datto joined the Institute as an affiliate faculty member on March 1st. Mike Bradley Datto, MD, PhD is an AP/CP/MGP board-certified pathologist, Vice Chair of Clinical Pathology for the Department of Pathology at Duke University and the Medical Director and Associate Vice President for Duke University Health System Clinical Laboratories.

We are pleased to announce that Carolyn Coyne, PhD will join the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute as a faculty member on April 1, 2021. Dr. Coyne comes to Duke from the University of Pittsburgh as part of the Duke Endowment Science and Technology Initiative to expand research and faculty in science, medicine, technology, engineering and mathematics.  

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! In honor of this day, members of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute share their thoughts on the importance of women and girls in science:

The Duke Human Vaccine Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Anthony Moody has been promoted to Professor of Pediatrics (tenure) effective January 1, 2021.

Congratulations to the members of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute's Division of Structural Biology whose paper, "D614G mutation alters SARS-CoV-2 spike conformation and enhances protease cleavage at the S1/S2 junction" was recently published in Cell Reports.