Through a collaboration designed to advance research in health equity and social drivers of health, the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Center for Precision Health have partnered with the Center for Nursing Research at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) to bring more than 20,000 biological samples and linked data from a community-based registry at Duke Kannapolis to investigators at DUSON.
The Biomarkers to Advance Clinical Phenotypes of Low Back Pain (BACk) project will build on a successful pilot study completed by Duke Ortho and CTSI in August. Like the pilot, recruitment for the BACk study will take place in Durham and Kannapolis, where CTSI operates the Duke Kannapolis research site on the North Carolina Research Campus.
The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Center for Precision Health (CPH), a collaboration that will harness the power of genomic, biomarker, and health data to transform patient care and population health.
The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is collaborating with Duke Emergency Medicine on a public health surveillance project dubbed Preventing Emerging Infections Through Vaccine Effectiveness Testing, or PREVENT II. Anyone who works at a Duke Health location and has recently been tested for COVID-19, whether positive or negative for infection, may be eligible to participate.