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Martin Douglass, PhD, is studying how Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, inflammation of the colon, responds to host-mediated immune responses.

VUMC postdoctoral researcher selected as HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

Vanderbilt postdoctoral researcher Martin Douglass, PhD, has been named a 2023 Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

This year’s REDCapCon drew of attendees from 19 countries, six continents, and 42 U.S. states and territories.

World’s research data administrators descend on Seattle for REDCapCon 2023

Institutional research data administrators from around world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2023, held Sept. 10-13 in Seattle.

Surgeons to lead multisite study of procedure to limit blood loss by partially blocking aorta

Vanderbilt care surgeons are leading a two-year, multicenter observational study of a minimally invasive technique to control life-threatening blood loss by inserting a balloon inside the aorta to restrict blood flow below the heart.

Frank Mason, PhD, left, Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, and their colleagues have identified an early event in the development of cancer, one that could lead to new ways to prevent it. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

VUMC study reveals critical first steps to cancer

A new study by Vanderbilt researchers provides a remarkably detailed view of the earliest events leading to the development of cancer, and of potential new ways to prevent it.

ELVIS team leaders include, from left, Jane Freedman, MD, project leader Suman Das, PhD, Simon Mallal, MBBS, Ravi Shah, MD, John McLean, PhD. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

$51 million NIH grant brings ELVIS to VUMC

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health.

From left, Mark Evers, MD; Seth Carp, MD; Robert Coffey, MD; Carmen Solórzano, MD; J. Joshua Smith, MD, PhD; Naji N. Abumrad, MD; Steven Leach, MD; and Paula Marincola Smith, MD, PhD, pose for a photo during the R. Daniel Beauchamp Memorial Symposium at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Not pictured, David Hanna, MD. (hoto by Erin O. Smith)

Beauchamp honored at symposium highlighting basic research by surgeon scientists

The profound impact of R. Daniel Beauchamp, MD, former chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was deeply evident at a recent symposium highlighting basic research conducted by numerous surgeons and physician-scientists, all of whom were closely associated with the noted physician-scientist.

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