Overview
Dr. Rapoza is the Executive Director of the Duke University Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), a position she has held since late 2015. In this role, she provides executive management for cardiovascular research within Duke. Dr. Rapoza is also the Duke Department of Medicine contact for graduate medical trainees interested in basic research, and works on a number of physician scientist training initiatives including the R38 research during residency program. She previously was the Vice-President of Science and Technology at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, where she led programs designed to strengthen research in North Carolina and developed great respect for and insight into the perspective and role of the funding agency as a thought leader. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Duke University and has served on various advisory groups and boards including the Triangle Global Health Consortium, REACH NC and the NC Association for Biomedical Research. Dr. Rapoza has worked throughout her career to strengthen systems for doing basic research.
Specialties: strategic leadership in the life sciences
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Early Outcomes of a New NIH Program to Support Research in Residency.
Journal Article Acad Med · September 1, 2022 The work of physician-investigators has historically led to key discoveries and developments in modern medicine, but recent decades have seen significant declines in the number of U.S. physician-investigators. One of the barriers to physicians participatin ... Full text Link to item CiteThe products of gene I and the overlapping in-frame gene XI are required for filamentous phage assembly.
Journal Article J Mol Biol · May 5, 1995 The class I filamentous bacteriophage are non-lytic single-stranded DNA phage, which are assembled at the cell envelope as they are extruded from the Gram-negative bacteria, Escherichia coli. The process requires the products of the phage genes I and IV, w ... Full text Link to item CiteThe filamentous bacteriophage assembly proteins require the bacterial SecA protein for correct localization to the membrane.
Journal Article J Bacteriol · March 1993 The noncapsid assembly proteins pI and pI of the filamentous bacteriophage f1 are inserted into the inner membrane of Escherichia coli via an internal signal sequence. Inhibition of the activity of SecA with low concentrations of sodium azide results in ra ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NIAID
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEProgram Director · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2029Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NHLBI
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEProgram Director · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2018 - 2028Duke-Stanford Cardiovascular Research Symposium 2017
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2017 - 2017View All Grants