Year: 2024

September 30, 2024

Medical Center North main entrance to change Oct. 10

The MCN lobby entrance, adjacent to the Commodore Cup coffee shop, will become the building’s permanent entrance for all employees and visitors and will be open 24/7. To increase security throughout MCN, all other entrances to the building will be closed.

By John Howser

September 30, 2024

Ramakrishnan’s Discovery Lecture

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan, PhD, center, author of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality, delivered the Sept. 26 Discovery Lecture.

By Bill Snyder

September 30, 2024

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt again verified as a Level 1 pediatric trauma center

The achievement verifies the hospital’s ability to provide the highest level of care for injured pediatric patients in the region.

By Jessica Pasley

September 30, 2024

VUMC researchers awarded $1.9 million for AI-driven cancer data extraction

The project seeks to reduce the time for clinical chart abstraction by 90% while maintaining human-level accuracy.

By Paul Govern

September 27, 2024

Distant relatedness in biobanks harnessed to identify undiagnosed genetic disease

VUMC researchers have developed a genetic method that clusters distantly related people to find rare variants that were present in a common ancestor.

By Leigh MacMillan

September 27, 2024

Nighttime closure of 24th Avenue and Children’s Way starts Oct. 7