Bill Snyder

January 28, 2025

New Vanderbilt Health program aims to improve efficiency, quality of ‘unplanned care’

Unplanned care refers to medical care arising from unexpected health issues that require immediate or urgent attention.

By Bill Snyder
(photo by Erin O. Smith)
January 24, 2025

Where is the line? Navigating the brave new world of workplace violence

Increasingly, health care professionals find that they must protect themselves from harm, even as they care for their patients.

By Bill Snyder
January 23, 2025

Elite society honors two VUMC physician-scientists

The Young Physician-Scientist Award recognizes “notable achievements” by researchers who are within five years of their first faculty appointment.

By Bill Snyder
An AI-driven rendering and analysis of a holotomography-based 3D reconstruction of a tumor tissue sample derived from a spatial molecular experimental platform. Cancer cells (blue), stromal cells (green), and immune cells (red) are highlighted, while the extracellular matrix (ECM) appears in translucent green with a green arrow indicating its orientation. By integrating spatial molecular measurements, this approach offers single-cell and subcellular functional characterization, providing key insights into cellular interactions and communication in a three-dimensional context to deepen our understanding of the tissue’s architecture and composition.
January 16, 2025

VUMC to launch Molecular AI initiative to spur precision medicine, transplantation

The leader of the new initiative, Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD, will work to apply AI and other revolutionary technologies, including advanced molecular imaging techniques, to clinical practice.

By Bill Snyder
Alexander Bick, MD, PhD
January 14, 2025

Two VUMC physician-scientists named to medical honor society

They are among more than 3,500 ASCI members, 48 of whom are current, full-time faculty members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

By Bill Snyder
January 8, 2025

Study suggests a new way to treat incurable lung disease

IPF is one of the most common forms of pulmonary fibrosis, an interstitial lung disease characterized by the progressive accumulation of scar tissue (fibrosis) in the epithelial lining of the airways.

By Bill Snyder
January 2, 2025

2025 New Year’s baby Siora Ray arrives only 12 minutes after midnight

First baby at VWCH: Cash Mitchell; first baby at VTHH: Gwennyth Trinity Grace Freeze-Stele.
By Bill Snyder
December 19, 2024

Proteomic signature a key to early detection of fatty liver disease: study

Currently, methods to detect early, obesity-related accumulation of fat in the liver other than a liver biopsy — the surgical removal of liver tissue for microscopic examination — are limited. But there is hope.
By Bill Snyder
December 17, 2024

Immune-suppressing drug does not improve COVID-19 recovery: study

Previous studies suggested that fostamatinib may suppress inflammatory responses triggered by COVID-19 and mitigate ongoing lung injury, decreasing mortality and oxygen requirements.
By Bill Snyder
December 16, 2024

VUMC awarded $26.4 million for patient-centered research

The awards support research efforts to identify optimal approaches to improving health care and health outcomes for patients, families and the community.
By Bill Snyder
December 11, 2024

Vanderbilt joins national effort to develop alphavirus vaccines

The project aims to design computational “tool kits” that can speed development of multi-virus vaccines targeting some of the greatest infectious threats to human health.
By Bill Snyder and Herschel Pollard
December 10, 2024

Therapy for genetic epilepsy in children showing promise

Preliminary results of a clinical trial of 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) “show a significant reduction in seizure activity among participants.”
By Bill Snyder