Bill Snyder

VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
April 6, 2022

Major grant renewal to provide five more years of support for VICTR

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has competed successfully for a third renewal of its Clinical and Translational Science Award by the National Institutes of Health.

By Bill Snyder
March 31, 2022

Crowe receives national award for COVID antibody research

Vanderbilt’s James Crowe Jr., MD, and Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, of The Rockefeller University, have been jointly awarded the 2022 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine for “groundbreaking work” that enabled the use of human antibodies to treat COVID-19.

By Bill Snyder
Jane Storie is one of many patients who are experiencing cognitive impairment after recovering from COVID-19. The long-term complication is also impacting her family — husband, James, daughter, Emily, and son, Andrew.
March 30, 2022

Team helps patients battle post-COVID cognitive issues

Jane Stories is one of many COVID-19 patients still plagued by debilitating symptoms that include achy muscles, anxiety, depression, panic attacks and cognitive impairment.

By Bill Snyder and Nancy Humphrey
March 29, 2022

VUMC mourns loss of noted scientist, teacher Stratton

Charles Stratton IV, MD, associate professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died March 21 in Nashville. He was 77.

By Bill Snyder
March 28, 2022

Rheumatoid arthritis: special deliveries

Birth outcomes including postpartum infection and blood transfusion were similar in women with and without rheumatoid arthritis, and continued use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and biologics is recommended to limit steroid exposure.

By Bill Snyder
March 24, 2022

Grant set to support Georgiev’s research to identify new antibodies

Vanderbilt’s Ivelin Georgiev, PhD, has received a three-year, $750,000 award from The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation of Rye Brook, New York, to support research aimed at rapidly identifying potent, disease-fighting antibodies.

By Bill Snyder
March 23, 2022

School of Medicine Spring Faculty Assembly set for April 29

The 2022 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Spring Faculty Assembly will be held in person this year beginning at noon on Friday, April 29, in 208 Light Hall.
By Bill Snyder
March 10, 2022

Technique hastens COVID-19 antibody discovery

Optimization of a technique developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center enables rapid and efficient identification of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19.
By Bill Snyder
March 10, 2022

Brain function expert Deisseroth set for March 17 Discovery Lecture

Optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, will speak at Vanderbilt's upcoming Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 17.
By Bill Snyder
March 9, 2022

Research Staff Awards honor those who help drive science forward

Laboratory and administrative personnel at Vanderbilt University Medical Center were honored March 4 for research excellence during the 18th annual Research Staff Awards Ceremony.
By Bill Snyder
March 8, 2022

Former Karolinska Institute chair Norrby set for March 14 lecture

Erling Norrby, MD, PhD, a world authority on viruses and former chair at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, will deliver a lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, March 14.
By Bill Snyder
March 3, 2022

COVID-19: two years of challenges, lessons, victories

Two years ago this week, the cataclysmic coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Middle Tennessee.
By Bill Snyder
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