Bill Snyder Archive — Page 5 of 119

November 11, 2025

David Mulherin takes on complex problems to improve patient safety

“I like the challenge of problem solving. At the end of the day, it’s knowing that what I’m doing … makes it easier for the front-line people to be able to do their jobs safely,” says the Credo Award winner.

By Bill Snyder
November 7, 2025

Romney Humphries named vice chair of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Humphries also will serve as executive medical director of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Clinical Service Center.

By Bill Snyder
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) resolution of the structure of a respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein (shades of pink) bound to fragments of two antibodies (dark/light and blue/green) designed by the researchers’ protein language model, MAGE.
November 4, 2025

AI can speed antibody design to thwart novel viruses: study

While the study focused on development of antibody therapeutics against existing and emerging viral threats, the implications of the research are much broader.

By Bill Snyder
October 30, 2025

Genetic variation impact scores: A new tool for earlier heart disease detection

The study will go a long way to improving the early diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, a common genetic driver of cardiovascular disease.

By Bill Snyder
The team studying how to control sepsis in the lungs and kidneys includes, from left, Huan Qiao, MD, PhD Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, Jozef Zienkiewicz, PhD, and Yan Liu, MD, MS. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
October 22, 2025

New sepsis therapy developed at VUMC edges closer to the clinic

Jacek Hawiger and his colleagues report that a “peptide genomic therapy” given in combination with an antibiotic nearly doubles survival rates from sepsis in an animal model, compared to treatment with antibiotic alone.

By Bill Snyder
October 22, 2025

Behind the curtain: Secrets of the volatile, delusional brain 

The VUMC approach, based on the “Feeling Safe Program” developed by British psychologist Daniel Freeman, targets specific factors that contribute to persecutory delusions, including worry, safety behaviors, avoidance and hallucinations (such as hearing voices).

By Bill Snyder