Bill Snyder

July 9, 2015

Study could lead to vaccine for mosquito-borne dengue virus

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the National University of Singapore have determined the structure of a human monoclonal antibody which, in an animal model, strongly neutralizes a type of the potentially lethal dengue virus.

By Bill Snyder
AIDS ribbon on the globe
June 25, 2015

VUMC, Meharry and State Health Department receive NIH grant to establish AIDS research center

Vanderbilt University has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research with Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Department of Health.

By Bill Snyder
June 22, 2015

Biochemistry professor Richard Armstrong remembered

Richard N. Armstrong, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, prominent biochemist, journal editor and mentor, died on June 18 after a brief illness. He was 66.

By Bill Snyder
June 18, 2015

New nanoparticle enhances success rate of coronary artery bypass grafts

A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center surgeons and biomedical engineers has developed a nanoparticle delivery system that may significantly improve the success rate of coronary artery bypass grafts.

By Bill Snyder
HIV cell
June 12, 2015

New strategy to combat HIV

Inhibitors of the enzyme phospholipase D1 suppress the replication of HIV-1, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered.

By Bill Snyder
June 11, 2015

Study: Why one kidney can work as well as two

Vanderbilt University researchers have come closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for more than a century: after the loss of one kidney, what causes the growth of the remaining kidney to take up the slack?

By Bill Snyder
May 28, 2015

Research at U.S. academic medical centers faces threats to sustainable support

Unstable federal research funding and reductions in health care revenue for academic medical centers threatens to undermine the nation’s biomedical research enterprise, and in turn clinical medicine, which the nation needs now more than ever.
By Bill Snyder
May 26, 2015

Spring Faculty meeting explores VUMC’s future course

The financial reorganization and separation of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center into separate nonprofit entities remains on schedule to occur in early 2016.
By Bill Snyder
May 21, 2015

‘Redesigned’ antibodies may control HIV: study

With the help of a computer program called “Rosetta,” researchers at Vanderbilt University have “redesigned” an antibody that has increased potency and can neutralize more strains of the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than can any known natural antibody.
By Bill Snyder
May 21, 2015

NIH director set for Discovery Lecture

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will deliver a special Discovery Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center next Thursday, May 28.
By Bill Snyder
May 15, 2015

VU lands $9 million NIH grant to design better flu vaccines

Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design more effective flu vaccines and novel antibody therapies.
By Bill Snyder
May 14, 2015

Supportive environment spurs Biomedical Sciences graduates

“It takes a village to raise a scientist.” That’s how Shenika Poindexter describes Vanderbilt University’s approach to graduate training in the biomedical sciences.
By Bill Snyder
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