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Features Archive — Page 2 of 8

A healthcare worker administers a vaccination to a man outdoors at night, with a line of people waiting in the background.
October 8, 2025

Shade Tree Clinic began with an undaunted duo 

By Jill Clendening
Fluorescence microscopy image of a zebrafish head and upper body, with cranial muscles glowing bright magenta and surrounding tissues glowing blue and yellow against a black background.
October 8, 2025

How zebrafish — and many hands — solve the ‘jigsaw puzzles’ of human disease 

Ela Knapik, MD, professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has devoted her career to collaborating with others to solve the “jigsaw puzzles” of disease. Her lab is known internationally for its use of modern genome-editing techniques in a powerful animal model — zebrafish.

By Bill Snyder
A smiling young boy sits on a wooden outdoor swing structure beside a smiling woman in a sunny residential garden.
October 8, 2025

Pediatric solid organ transplant program transforms young lives 

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is among an elite group of pediatric hospitals offering heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung and dual organ transplants. The pediatric solid organ program is a part of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center (VTC) one of the nation’s busiest transplant centers.

By Jessica Pasley
Stylized outline of a human head with a magnifying glass over an orange line drawing of a brain on a yellow background.
October 8, 2025

Landmark bequest to advance psychiatry research 

By Sarah Wolf
Infographic titled “PATIENT POPULATION.” Text states that Shade Tree Clinic can serve a roster of 300 individuals; 268 adults and 26 children are current patients, and 30 women were seen over six months at the Shade Tree Early Pregnancy Program. Illustrated clinicians and family appear beside a circular graphic.
October 8, 2025

Shade Tree Clinic: Did you know?

Illustration of a collaborative medical research laboratory, with several researchers working around a table covered in computers, laboratory equipment, samples, and a human-body diagnostic diagram; a video call appears on a monitor in the background.
March 27, 2024

The Merit of Minimizing Mistakes

By Paul Govern