The Morris Building houses the Duke Oncology Treatment Center. The Morris Building is named for Edwin A. Morris, a donor who supported the creation of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Personnel Rapid Transit (PRT) system was used to...
In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic sciences for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was chair of the Department of Immunology from...