Alissa Weaver

The Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (Neil Brake/Vanderbilt)
May 12, 2021

AACR second session to feature Vanderbilt researchers

The second session of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual meeting, May 17-21, features several researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

By Tom Wilemon
The extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer team includes, from left, Jeffrey Franklin, PhD, Yu Shyr, PhD, Qi Liu, PhD, Alissa Weaver, MD, PhD, James Higginbotham, PhD, and James Patton, PhD. Not pictured: Robert Coffey, MD, Kasey Vickers, PhD, and John Karijolich, PhD. (photo taken before social distancing)
April 9, 2020

Research team awarded $9 million to study extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer

The NCI program project grant is supporting multiple projects that aim to define fundamental biological principles about extracellular RNA signaling and the development and aggressiveness of colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States.

By Leigh MacMillan
November 25, 2016

Nine Vanderbilt faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Nine Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year.

By Bill Snyder
April 28, 2016

An Argonaute’s voyage to cancer

A genetic mutation that promotes cancer development blocks the normal sorting of a protein called “Argonaute 2.”

By Bill Snyder
February 18, 2016

Study explores less invasive way to monitor colorectal cancer

Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have published research regarding an important feature of colorectal cancer (CRC) that could eventually lead to the development of non-invasive means of monitoring cancer progression. After lung cancer, CRC is the second-most lethal cancer in the United States.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 13, 2014

Sandberg, Weaver named to AAMC faculty council

By Jill Clendening
December 19, 2013

Cancer cells combine tools to increase invasiveness

Two features of invasive cancer cells — invadopodia and exosomes — are linked together, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered.
By Leigh MacMillan
October 4, 2012

Proteins help flip tumor’s invasive switch

Vanderbilt investigators have identified how two key components of cancer's invasive "switch" — the series of signaling events that turn on a tumor cell’s invasive behavior — work together.
By Leigh MacMillan