Reporter

December 16, 2015

Immune response in transplantation

Thirty-three percent of pediatric heart transplant patients developed antibodies against the donor heart, which can lead to rejection, a new Vanderbilt study reports.

By VUMC News and Communications
candle
December 16, 2015

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt offers safety tips for holiday decorating

By VUMC News and Communications
December 16, 2015

Vanderbilt psychiatrist renews call to find the place ‘between Hallmark and heartache’ during the holidays

By Wayne Wood
December 16, 2015

Tennessee Poison Center offers a quick summary on the dangers of holiday plants

By Wayne Wood
December 15, 2015

Gore named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

John Gore, director of the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Fellowship is granted to “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on society.”

By Bill Snyder
December 14, 2015

DISSECTing cell signaling networks

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to study cell signaling networks at single-cell resolution.

By Leigh MacMillan
December 14, 2015

Diabetes Family Day

Last month, hundreds of patients living with diabetes and their family members joined the staff of the Vanderbilt Children's Diabetes Program for the 14th annual Diabetes Family Day at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 13, 2015

Personalized medicine is topic of new Vanderbilt massive open online course

Enrollment has opened for Case Studies in Personalized Medicine, Vanderbilt's latest free massive open online course, or MOOC. The six-week course starts Jan. 15.
By Paul Govern
December 10, 2015

New lead for ovarian cancer treatment

Combining inhibitors of the BMP signaling pathway with standard chemotherapy drugs may overcome drug resistance in ovarian cancer.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 10, 2015

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Ryan Seacrest Foundation partner to open Seacrest Studios

By Christina Echegaray
December 10, 2015

Review highlights financial impact of sarcoma misdiagnosis

Malpractice awards and settlements are eight times greater when physicians misdiagnosis sarcoma than when they make other mistakes, according to a review of 32 years of court cases.
By Tom Wilemon
December 10, 2015

Dermody named to lead pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh

Terence Dermody, M.D., director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is leaving to become chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, physician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and scientific director of the Rangos Research Center.
By Nancy Humphrey
December 10, 2015

Honoring Wheeler

Arthur Wheeler, M.D., and his wife, Lisa, pose with the portrait of Wheeler that was unveiled at a special reception last week honoring his career accomplishments and service to VUMC.
By VUMC News and Communications