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January 17, 2017

A heart-brain connection

Cognitive and attention deficits observed in children following surgery before age 5 to repair congenital heart defects likely will persist into their teens and young adulthood.

By Bill Snyder

January 12, 2017

Lindsley’s drug discovery efforts land ASPET Award

Craig Lindsley, Ph.D., a leader of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s groundbreaking drug discovery program, is the 2017 recipient of the Pharmacia-ASPET Award in Experimental Therapeutics from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).

By Bill Snyder

January 12, 2017

Team’s discovery offers new insight on lung cancer risk

Researchers in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering at Vanderbilt University have discovered a proteomic “signature” from the airways of heavy smokers that could lead to better risk assessment and perhaps new ways to stop lung cancer before it starts.

By Bill Snyder

January 12, 2017

Nominations sought for Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Nominations for the 2017 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science are now being accepted. The deadline is March 31.

By Bill Snyder

Clinical and translational research at Vanderbilt will be funded over the next five years, thanks to a $46 million renewal grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. (Mary Donaldson/Vanderbilt)

January 5, 2017

Department of Medicine’s NIH funding swells

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has long been recognized as a national leader in biomedical research. Nowhere is this more evident than in the school’s Department of Medicine, which, during the 2016 federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, broke another record.

By Bill Snyder

December 21, 2016

Daughter’s rare adverse drug reaction inspires family’s donation

Last year Paul and Wanpen Anderson of Champaign, Illinois, were preparing to celebrate the Christmas holidays with their two children when their 22-year-old daughter, Angela, developed a rare adverse drug reaction called SJS/TEN.

By Bill Snyder

December 15, 2016
New clues emerge in rare form of childhood epilepsy

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are one step closer to understanding what causes early-onset epileptic encephalopathy, a rare form of childhood epilepsy that is difficult to treat and has poor developmental outcomes.
By Bill Snyder
December 1, 2016
Symposium honors Casagrande’s career

Colleagues of Vivien Casagrande, Ph.D., celebrated her distinguished career in the visual sciences with a “Lifetime of Vision” symposium Nov. 18 in Biological Sciences/Medical Research Building III.
By Bill Snyder
November 28, 2016
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of skin diseases and cancer stem cells, is the recipient of the 2016 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced today.
By Bill Snyder
November 25, 2016
Nine Vanderbilt faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Nine Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year.
By Bill Snyder
November 21, 2016
Building the basement membrane

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered steps in the regulation of a key enzyme that builds the basement membrane, a structure that undergirds nearly all animal tissues.
By Bill Snyder
November 17, 2016
Graduate student’s cancer studies land NCI support

Kamakoti “Kami” Bhat, a fifth-year graduate student in the lab of David Cortez, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine, has achieved a “first” for Vanderbilt University.
By Bill Snyder

Bill Snyder Archive — Page 78 of 119

A heart-brain connection

Lindsley’s drug discovery efforts land ASPET Award

Team’s discovery offers new insight on lung cancer risk

Nominations sought for Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Department of Medicine’s NIH funding swells

Daughter’s rare adverse drug reaction inspires family’s donation

New clues emerge in rare form of childhood epilepsy

Symposium honors Casagrande’s career

Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Nine Vanderbilt faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Building the basement membrane

Graduate student’s cancer studies land NCI support