Bill Snyder Archive — Page 27 of 121

In this 3D projected still image from a precision cut lung slice, alveolar epithelial cells are labeled green. All other cells are seen in purple.
July 5, 2023

Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs

Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achieved a rare feat in science — they have shattered a long-standing dogma about how the lung develops.

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of Jennifer Pilat, PhD, smiling in a red blouse and black blazer in an indoor atrium.
June 29, 2023

Selenium signal found in colorectal cancer: study

An antioxidant transporter of the trace mineral selenium that protects against inflammatory bowel disease has the opposite effect in colorectal cancer, where it promotes tumor growth, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have reported.

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a patterned sleeveless top, standing outdoors among trees.
June 29, 2023

Ayaka Sugiura, PhD, and Camille Wang receive P.E.O. Scholar Awards

Ayaka Sugiura, PhD, and Camille Wang, aspiring physician-scientists in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Vanderbilt, are among this year’s recipients of highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Awards.

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of an older man wearing glasses, a suit jacket, white shirt, and patterned tie.
June 28, 2023

Vanderbilt mourns loss of former ‘godfather of grants’ John Hoover Hash

John Hoover Hash, PhD, who as associate dean for Biomedical Sciences and director of Sponsored Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center oversaw the computerization of VUMC’s grant recording system in the 1980s, died in Nashville on June 20. He was 94.

By Bill Snyder
3D medical illustration of a translucent human torso showing the liver highlighted in bright orange and red beneath the rib cage.
June 22, 2023

Pathways to a healthy liver

Hepatic stellate cells maintain liver mass and function; the signaling factors they use could be exploited therapeutically to promote liver regeneration and inhibit cancerous proliferation, Vanderbilt researchers suggest.

By Bill Snyder
Research assistant Mahsa Majedi loads reagent used in DNA sample preparation in the genomics lab. She is part of a team of more than a dozen people at VUMC who are “sprinting” to develop — within 90 days — an antibody-based treatment to stop the spread of the Zika virus.
June 22, 2023

VUMC, Oxford team develops ‘blueprint’ to block lethal virus

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Oxford have determined how a human monoclonal antibody isolated at Vanderbilt in 2021 can prevent infection by the potentially lethal Sin Nombre virus.

By Bill Snyder