Melissa Marchese and Liping Feng Awarded OPSD Medical Student Scholar and Mentor Scholarship
JUNE 17, 2024
Congratulations to the OPSD Medical Student Scholars! These awards encourage third-year medical students to participate in research projects under the guidance of basic science faculty members in the School of Medicine.
Karina Cuevas Mora Awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship and Dean’s Graduate Fellowship
APRIL 10, 2024
Each year, The Graduate School awards a number of competitive fellowships to both incoming and continuing Ph.D. students in various disciplines. We’re so proud of Karina, who is earning a PHD Integrated Toxicology and environmental health with the Feng Lab, has won the Chancellor’s Scholarship (Domestic) and
Dean’s Graduate Fellowship!
Researchers create real-time view of placental development in mice
MARCH 21, 2024
Physicians and biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to visualize the growth of a placenta throughout a mouse’s pregnancy. By coupling an implantable window with ultrafast imaging tools, the approach provides the first opportunity to track placental development to better understand how the organ functions during pregnancy. This new perspective gives researchers a precise way to examine how lifestyle factors like alcohol consumption and health complications like inflammation can affect the placenta and potentially lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes.
NIH Awards R01 Grant to Liping Feng, MD, and Pathology Team for PFAS Study
APRIL 12, 2023
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3 million, five-year R01 grant starting April 2023 to Liping Feng, MD, and her team to support their investigation of the effects of perinatal per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure on immune response to vaccination during pregnancy and in offspring after birth through altered cellular immunity and gut microbiota. They will also examine the antibody transfer from the maternal compartment to offspring through the placenta and breast milk by disrupting endocrine signaling and antibody transfer pathways.
PFAS Contamination and Impact on Maternal Health
JANUARY 25, 2023
An innovative, real-world experiment to evaluate the effects of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) on maternal health and fetal development, and raise awareness at the community level in North Carolina and around the globe, is the focus of the work led by Liping Feng, MD, of Duke Ob/Gyn’s Division of Reproductive Sciences and an affiliate of the Duke Global Health Institute. Her research looks at PFAS mixtures mimicking real-life exposures, not just the effects of single PFAS compounds in isolation.
GLOBAL CONCERNS FOR MATERNAL HEALTH COME CLOSE TO HOME. Liping Feng’s preeclampsia research connects with local PFAS contamination
JULY 27, 2022
The Duke Global Health Institute is helping faculty build research international global health research collaborations with institutional partners through the Small International Travel Grant program. This fall, DGHI has awarded grants to Nadia El-Shaarawi (Kenan Institute for Ethics), Liping Feng (OB/GYN), Catherine Lynch (Emergency Medicine), and Elizabeth Turner (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) for travel to the Middle East, Asia, South America and Africa.
Melissa Marchese Awarded for PFAS Research at Duke 2021 Global Health Student Showcase
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Congratulations to Melissa Marchese, Mahgul Mansoor, Haley Cionfolo, and the team of Saisahana Subburaj, Cassidy Connett, Madeline McNee, and Avanti Shah on winning awards for their research projects during the 2021 Global Health Student Showcase! Incredible work.
