Press releases and publications from the Medical Research Program, organized by program strategy
Clinical Research Career Ladder
DDCF Announces New Grants Totaling Over $13 Million in Support of Clinical Research
July 1, 2010
Press Release
DDCF and Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Announce Partnership to Support Early Career Physician-Scientists
July 1, 2010
Press Release
DDCF Selects 14 Junior Physician-Scientists to Receive
2009 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
July 28, 2009
Press Release (24 KB PDF)
DDCF Announces Recipients of the 2008 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award
December 15, 2008
Press Release (25 KB PDF)
DDCF Selects 20 Junior Clinical Scientists to Receive 2008 Clinical Scientist Development Awards Totaling $8.1 Million
September 18, 2008
Press Release (28 KB PDF)
DDCF Awards $9 Million to Continue and Expand the Clinical Research Fellowship Program for Medical Students
October 15, 2007
Press Release (33 KB PDF)
DDCF Selects 17 Junior Physician-Scientists to Receive
2007 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
July 24, 2007
Press Release (35 KB PDF)
DDCF Awards $11.1 Million to Support a New Cohort of Distinguished Clinical Scientists and the Continuation of Three Outstanding Mentoring Programs
December 6, 2006
Press Release (146 KB PDF)
Junior Clinical Researchers Selected to Receive
23 Development Awards Totaling $9.3 Million
July 21, 2006
Press Release (28 KB PDF)
Medical Research Program Staff Publishes
Paper on First Three Years of
Clinical Research Fellowship Program
Journal of Investigative Medicine
March 2005
Full Article
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $5 Million
to Renew Clinical Research Fellowship Program
at 10 U.S. Medical Schools
December 14, 2004
Press Release (25 KB PDF)
DDCF Selects Four Scientists to Receive
2004 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Awards
Totaling $6 Million
October 28, 2004
Press Release (26 KB PDF)
African Health Research
DDCF Commits $44 Million to Support
Four Partnerships to Strengthen Health Systems
Serving 3.5 Million People in Sub-Saharan Africa
July 31, 2009
Press Release (62 KB PDF)
DDCF African Health Initiative Selects 11 Teams to
Receive Planning Grants for Creating Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) Partnerships in
Nine African Countries
October 28, 2008
Press Release (46 KB PDF)
DDCF Announces the Launch of Its New $100 Million
African Health Initiative During the 2007 Annual Meeting
of the Clinton Global Initiative
September 27, 2007
DDCF Selects Ten Teams to Receive Grants
Totaling $2 Million for Operations Research in Africa
June 1, 2007
Press Release (38 KB PDF)
DDCF Selects Twenty Teams to Receive Grants Totaling
$4 Million for Operations Research on AIDS Care and Treatment in Nine African Countries
February 1, 2006
Press Release (40 KB PDF)
Doris Duke Medical Research Institute Opens at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa
July 28, 2003
Press Release (27 KB PDF)
DDCF Supports the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s 2003 International Leadership Awards
June 8, 2003
Press Release (22 KB PDF)
DDCF Awards Two Grants Totaling $3.75 Million to Build Long-Term Clinical Research Capacity in South Africa
June 26, 2002
Press Release (28 KB PDF)
Clinical Research Frontiers
DDCF Announces Five Projects Selected to Receive 2009 Innovation in Clinical Research Awards to Advance Treatments and Cures for Sickle Cell Disease
September 30, 2009
Press Release (55 KB PDF)
Three Multidisciplinary Teams Selected to
Receive Grants Totaling $6.75 Million to Address
Challenging Questions in Human Disease
November 30, 2005
Press Release (35 KB PDF)
DDCF Awards $2 Million to Ten Teams to Develop Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Therapeutic Monitoring Tools for AIDS Patients in Low-Resource Settings
September 23, 2003
Press Release (36 KB PDF)
DDCF Announces Recipients of First Clinical Interfaces Awards for Cross-Disciplinary Research
September 23, 2003
Press Release (36 KB PDF)
Other
DDCF Announces the Appointment of Betsy Myers as Program Director for Medical Research
August 2, 2010
Press Release
DDCF Publishes Report Highlighting
First Ten Years of the Medical Research Program
August 11, 2009
Full Report (1 MB PDF)
The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award:
A Seven-Year Retrospective and Summary
Chapter reprinted with permission from Enhancing Philanthropy’s Support of Biomedical Scientists: Proceedings of a Workshop on Evaluation © 2006 by the National Academy of Sciences, courtesy of the National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
May 2006
Full Article (146 KB PDF)
The JIM Interview:
Interview with Elaine Gallin, Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Journal of Investigative Medicine
September 2005
Full Article (118 KB PDF)
DDCF Grant to the Public Library of Science Enables Publication Fee to be Waived for DDCF Grantees
November 8, 2004
Press Release (26 KB PDF)