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Personal, Environmental & Population Health
Duke engineers are deeply engaged in improving the health of humans and our environment — from understanding and ameliorating disease at the molecular and genetic level, to developing technologies to improve global health, to exploring the interconnections between human health and environmental quality. A hallmark of our approach is extensive collaborations with leading physicians and scientists at Duke’s School of Medicine and Nicholas School of the Environment.
Major Centers and Initiatives
Engineer-Clinician Team Development
Improving Individual Health
Groups
- Bioelectric Engineering
- Biomaterials—Duke BME and Duke MEMS
- Biomedical Imaging
- Biophotonics
- Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
- Genetic Engineering
- Neural Engineering
- Synthetic Biology
Centers
- Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies (CAGT)
- Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)
- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
- Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Characterization Center (IGVF)
- Kaganov Research Initiative in Pulmonary Medicine & Engineering with Duke’s School of Medicine
- Marcus Center for Cellular Cures with Duke’s School of Medicine
Improving Population Health
- Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies (Duke GWHT)
- Center for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene & Infectious Disease (WaSH-AID)
- Data Analytics for Population-Scale Screening, Diagnostics and Prognostics
- Duke Global Health Institute—university-wide
- Mapping Epigenetic Memory of Exposure to Observe (MEMENTO)
- NiCHES Children’s Environmental Health Research Center—with Duke’s School of Medicine
Environmental & Health Systems Research
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