Year: 2015

December 14, 2015

DISSECTing cell signaling networks

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to study cell signaling networks at single-cell resolution.

By Leigh MacMillan
December 14, 2015

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center take next steps in transition

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center filed documents with the Tennessee Attorney General Dec. 14 related to their transition to two separate legal and financial entities.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 14, 2015

Diabetes Family Day

Last month, hundreds of patients living with diabetes and their family members joined the staff of the Vanderbilt Children’s Diabetes Program for the 14th annual Diabetes Family Day at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 13, 2015

Personalized medicine is topic of new Vanderbilt massive open online course

Enrollment has opened for Case Studies in Personalized Medicine, Vanderbilt’s latest free massive open online course, or MOOC. The six-week course starts Jan. 15.

By Paul Govern
December 10, 2015

New lead for ovarian cancer treatment

Combining inhibitors of the BMP signaling pathway with standard chemotherapy drugs may overcome drug resistance in ovarian cancer.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 10, 2015

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Ryan Seacrest Foundation partner to open Seacrest Studios

By Christina Echegaray
December 10, 2015

Review highlights financial impact of sarcoma misdiagnosis

Malpractice awards and settlements are eight times greater when physicians misdiagnosis sarcoma than when they make other mistakes, according to a review of 32 years of court cases.
By Tom Wilemon
December 10, 2015

Dermody named to lead pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh

Terence Dermody, M.D., director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is leaving to become chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, physician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and scientific director of the Rangos Research Center.
By Nancy Humphrey
December 10, 2015

Honoring Wheeler

Arthur Wheeler, M.D., and his wife, Lisa, pose with the portrait of Wheeler that was unveiled at a special reception last week honoring his career accomplishments and service to VUMC.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 10, 2015

Vanderbilt, Ono Pharmaceutical sign drug discovery agreement

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ono Pharmaceutical Group, an international company based in Japan, have signed a drug discovery agreement.
By Paul Govern
December 10, 2015

Society of Urologic Oncology honors VUMC’s Smith

The Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) is recognizing Joseph Smith Jr., M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery, with the Huggins Medal, its highest honor, for his lifetime contributions to the progress in treatment for patients with genitourinary neoplasms, which are tumors or cancer of the reproductive organs and the urinary system.
By Craig Boerner
December 10, 2015

Baldwin awarded AHA’s Helen B. Taussig Memorial Lecture

Scott Baldwin, M.D., director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, recently was awarded the American Heart Association’s Helen B. Taussig Memorial Lecture, considered one of the most renowned invited lectures in the United States.
By Christina Echegaray