Bill Snyder Archive — Page 26 of 121

Two women stand in a brick-walled auditorium as one presents the other with a white lab coat; seated attendees watch from the right.
August 18, 2023

Simple Beginnings ceremony is Sept.1; donations accepted for white coats for students

By Bill Snyder
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with short brown hair wearing a dark collared shirt.
August 16, 2023

Artificial intelligence innovator John Jumper to deliver Aug. 30 Apex Lecture

John Jumper, who led the development of AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence system that can predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins, will give the next Apex Lecture on Wednesday, Aug. 30.

By Bill Snyder
Modern multi-story campus buildings surrounding landscaped gardens, pedestrian paths, and a roadway under a partly cloudy sky.
August 9, 2023

VUMC receives $51 million in NIH grants to improve efficiency of conducting clinical trials across the US

Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded two five-year federal grants totaling $51 million to harness new and existing approaches for boosting recruitment and removing roadblocks to the efficiency of conducting clinical trials throughout the country.

By Bill Snyder
Three-dimensional illustration of a coronavirus particle with a textured gray spherical surface, red spike proteins, and smaller yellow surface structures; blurred particles appear in the background.
August 2, 2023

VUMC receives $28 million to lead national study of COVID-diabetes link

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received a four-year, $28 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study the relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes.

By Bill Snyder
A speaker stands at a Vanderbilt University podium, gesturing beside a laptop while an audience watches in the foreground.
August 2, 2023

The urgency of research

Griffin Rodgers, MD, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, described the urgency of the nation’s diabetes epidemic July 26 during a symposium of the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program in Diabetes and Obesity hosted by Vanderbilt University.

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of a smiling woman with short light-brown hair, wearing a dark turtleneck and long beaded necklace against a brown background.
July 26, 2023

Nancy Cox receives American Society of Human Genetics Leadership Award

Nancy Cox, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, is the recipient of the 2023 ASHG Leadership Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.

By Bill Snyder