Year: 2019

Isla Garraway, MD, PhD, and André Churchwell, MD, pose for a photo at Tuesday’s Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture.
October 9, 2019

Watkins’ niece Garraway discusses research, family ties

UCLA’s Isla Garraway, MD, PhD, delivered Tuesday’s Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture.

By Kathy Whitney
October 8, 2019

Children’s Hospital patient and his grandmother write a book with a message: “I am just like you, but different”

Ryan told his grandmother about the way other people looked at him. She didn’t want him to experience that anymore.

By Jessica Pasley
October 8, 2019

New leadership appointments for Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

By Bill Snyder
3d rendering white blood cells with red blood cells
October 8, 2019

A new regulator of B cell development

New findings establish a role for the pro-inflammatory molecule IL-33 in the early development of antibody-producing B cells.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 7, 2019

Biomedical Science Advisory Board member Kaelin wins Nobel Prize

William Kaelin Jr., MD, a member of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Biomedical Science Advisory Board, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

By Bill Snyder
October 7, 2019

AI maps routes to heart disease

Machine learning on unlabeled electronic health record data has shed light on the emergence of cardiovascular disease.

By Paul Govern
October 4, 2019

Pets of VUMC 2019 — Collection #5: Here’s looking at you, part 1

These eyes have seen a lot of love
October 3, 2019

New test assists physicians with quicker treatment decisions for sepsis

Rapid blood culture diagnostics for patients with bacterial bloodstream infections delivered final results in 12 hours versus the two to three days required for conventional testing.
By Jessica Pasley
October 3, 2019

Study: personalized decision support affects intensive care

For patients in pediatric intensive care who are at high risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), giving clinicians automated decision support during the electronic order entry process increased the rate of blood testing for AKI by 9%.
By Paul Govern
October 3, 2019

A step toward gastric cancer

New research findings provide insight into the detrimental events that develop in response to H. pylori infection.
By Sanjay Mishra
October 3, 2019

Team discovers one more piece to the autism puzzle

Vanderbilt investigators have linked genetic mutations in a single receptor to epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability.
By Bill Snyder
October 3, 2019

VICC’s Rathmell honored with Louisa Nelson Award

Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, received an award that honors women who embody the achievement, vision and inspiration of the founder of a local distillery.
By Tom Wilemon
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